Jack Harberd - Tenor
Jack Harberd - Tenor
He performs regularly with ensembles including the Monteverdi Choir, Tenebrae, BBC Singers, Siglo de Oro, ORA Singers, The Carice Singers, Corvus Consort, The Ulster Consort, VOCES8, and APOLLO5. He records film and video game soundtracks with London Voices, and holds a regular position with the choir of St Marylebone Parish Church, London. His singing has been broadcast on national and international television and radio.
Opera credits include playing Summer and Cupid in a gods-and-goddesses staging of Purcell The Fairy Queen (HGO), a Greek-chorus influenced Tritone II in Gavin Bryars Marilyn Forever (Oxford Contemporary Opera), and a Trojan Soldier and Chorus in Berlioz Les Troyens (Monteverdi Choir, awarded Best Chorus at Oper! Awards 2024).
Praised for his interpretations of Britten and Handel, Jack’s solo undertaking includes recent performances of Messiah, St Nicolas, and Rejoice in the Lamb, as well as a recital programme of Beethoven’s folk song repertoire, and a collection of songs for Remembrance Day.
Jack has performed at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Edinburgh Festival, Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, Berlin Philharmonie, Opéra Royal de Versailles, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw. At Ameins Cathedral he sang solo for world leaders and other distinguished guests for a ceremony to mark the centenary of the Battle of Amiens.
He is an alumnus of young artist programmes run by the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, The Sixteen, VOCES8, and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. In addition he has received coaching from Roderick Williams, Dame Emma Kirkby, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Rachel Nicholls, Sophie Daneman, and Mark Padmore.
Jack was raised in Norwich and Oxford, and read a music degree at the University of York. Before his singing career, Jack was a specialist music researcher for music television, and worked on documentaries about Bernard Haitink, Michael Tippett, and Queen Elizabeth II, and on the BBC Proms 2021 coverage. He now undertakes ad hoc research work, advising on classical music and musicians.
with Jack Redman, piano
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