Lowrey, Christopher

Christopher Lowrey

Countertenor Christopher Lowrey has now established himself in the top flight of young countertenors on both the opera stage and concert platform. In the American school, with a British accent, he balances the best elements of these diverse traditions, merging directness of expression and beauty of tone with precision and agility. Now regularly working alongside many of the world’s leading opera houses, orchestras, and festivals, his career takes him throughout Europe, the USA, and Australasia.

Christopher sings with a wide range of distinguished companies around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, BBC Proms, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Barbican Centre, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Academy of Ancient Music, Boston Early Music Festival, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Pinchgut Opera, English National Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan, Ensemble Pygmalion, Boston Baroque, Göttingen Handel Festival, and Voices of Music.

This season, alongside solo recital appearances in New York and Madrid, he makes his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, reprising his role as Guildenstern in Brett Dean's Hamlet, and at Oper Frankfurt, singing Medoro in Handel's Orlando. He will also help create the modern-era debut of an ancient work by Antonio Draghi, Il dono della vita eterna, which will tour extensively throughout Europe. Additionally, he makes his debuts with Tafelmusik singing Handel's Messiah, and with Il Groviglio singing the title role of Handel's Poro.

Recent performances include the title role of Handel's Solomon with Millennium Orchestra, the title role of Giulio Cesare with Forma Antiqva, Pergolesi Stabat Mater with B'Rock Orchestra, and Bach's Trauerode with the Gulbenkian Orchestra. His growing catalogue of recordings includes Handel's Rodelinda (Bertarido) from the Göttingen Handel Festival, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Les Talens Lyriques, and a disc of Monteverdi arias and madrigals with Cappella Mediterranea.

Christopher is also active as a conductor of choral music. He is the founder and director of Ensemble Altera, a leading American chamber choir based in Rhode Island. Upcoming plans for the group include a boldly reimagined chamber version of Handel's Messiah, and a program celebrating illumination in the natural and metaphysical world, Dazzling Light. Altera's debut album, The Lamb's Journey, is due out in 2023.