Jack Comerford - Bass

Jack leads a varied career as a performer, teacher and researcher. He read Music at the University of York and the Royal College of Music, where he graduated with a Double First. Jack studied with Tim Evans-Jones and Stephen Varcoe and held a number of scholarships during his time at the RCM.

Jack has worked regularly with The Monteverdi Choir, OAE, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort and Britten Sinfonia. Highlights have included tours of Gluck’s Orfeo and Iphigénie en Tauride with Laurence Cummings in Romania; Bach’s Motets at the BBC Proms with Harry Christophers; the Gramophone award winning Venetian Coronation programme with Paul McCreesh; Bach’s B Minor Mass in Poland with Vaclav Luks; Delius’s Hassan with Jamie Phillips; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the BBC Proms with Sir John Eliot Gardiner; and Handel’s L’Allegro with Dinis Sousa at Carnegie Hall. Jack also sang with the Monteverdi Choir at the Coronation of King Charles III.

Recent solo engagements have included BWV 174 with the London Handel Players; Schutz’s Musikalische Exequien with Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Hanover Band; and a european tour of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Peter Whelan and the Monteverdi Choir. Jack works as a postgraduate researcher and assistant lecturer at the University of Southampton where he is completing his doctorate. He is a recipient of a Handel Institute research award and recently appeared as a guest speaker on BBC 3’s Early Music Show.