Jeremy Budd, Tenor
Jeremy is a former Head Chorister of St. Paul’s Cathedral. As a treble soloist he performed extensively both at home and abroad, including performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and with the London Symphony Orchestra. Recordings include ‘Hear My Prayer’ with St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir, ‘A Play of Passion’ with Michael Chance and Fretwork, and Paul McCartney’s ‘Liverpool Oratorio’ with Carl Davis.
Jeremy is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with David Lowe. Jeremy regularly performs with many of the UK’s leading choirs, including the Monteverdi choir, Gabrieli Consort, King’s Consort, European Voices, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, Cardinals Musick, Ex Cathedra, Tenebrae, and is a full time member of The Sixteen.
Jeremy made his London debut as a tenor in 2000 singing Pilatus in Arvo Part’s Passio in Westminster Cathedral, and has since made regular appearances on the concert platform, including, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor in San Francisco and New York with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, St. John Passion Arias for the Gurzenich Orchestra in Cologne, ‘Haute Contre’ in Purcell’s Ode on St .Cecilia’s Day in Paris and the Barbican with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and then with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort in Beaune and the Concertgebouw, the Roasting Swan in Carmina Burana for Birmingham Royal Ballet and also Jersey Philharmonic, the role of Damon in Acis and Galatea, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Haydn’s Creation (soloist) for Paul McCreesh, Purcell's Dioclesian and Eccles' Judgement of Paris in the Lufthansa Baroque Festival with Christian Curnyn. and Haydn's Creation in the Swansea Festival. In 2008 Jeremy made his solo Proms debut in Bach’s St. John Passion (arias) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and later that year made his Canadian debut with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy in Quebec and Montreal singing 'haute contre' in Charpentier's Messe de Minuit, In Nativitatem Domini and Dupuy's Au Milieu de la Nuit. He also performed Handel's Messiah in Montreal for Daniel Taylor.
Operatic engagements include a fully-staged St. John Passion in Paris and Orfeo in Lille with Emmanuelle Haim, the role of Pilade in Handel’s Oreste at the Linbury Studio Theatre, a fully staged performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with English Country Garden Opera, Chabrier’s L’Etoile at the Opera Comique in Paris with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Der Fliegender Hollander and Acis and Galatea with the Royal Opera House Chorus.
Future solo engagements include, Haydn Seasons in Madrid with Harry Christophers, St John Passion (evangelist) in Symphony Hall with ExCathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore and also with Hertford Choral Society, Handel's La Resurrezione with Paul McCreesh, St Matthew Passion (Evangelist) in Madrid, Beethoven Mass in C with Brian Kay and Monteverdi Vespers in the Cheltenham Festival.
Other dates include concerts and recordings with The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Monteverdi Choir, Cardinals Musick, Ex Cathedra, Alamire, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and with Emmanuelle Haim and Concert D'Astree.
