Biography
Christopher Gould read music at Clare College, Cambridge before taking up a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study accompaniment with John Streets, Malcolm Martineau and Gareth Hancock, supported by The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. On leaving the Academy of he was awarded the Her Royal Princess Alice’s Prize for outstanding contribution to the college and in 2001 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. He was the first young pianist to receive an award from The Geoffrey Parsons Trust in 1996; this was followed by the Gerald Moore Award (1998) and the first prize for accompaniment in the Wigmore International Song Competition (2001).
Christopher is staff pianist and coach on several international summer schools and divides his time between vocal coaching and a busy recital career in the UK and abroad. In London he has performed with such artists as Sarah Walker, Ann Murray, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Geraldine McGreevy at the Wigmore Hall, St Johns Smith Square, the Purcell Room and on BBC Radio 3. Concerts abroad have included recitals at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Opera House in Lille and in Italy, Israel and Japan. Ongoing projects include a tour of the UK with bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams performing Winterreise in a multimedia presentation for Opera North. Christopher’s latest CDs have just been released: an English Song disc, The Water is Wide, with mezzo-soprano Diana Moore and Who are these children?, a recording of Britten songs for BIS records with tenor Daniel Norman. Future projects include recitals with Geraldine McGreevy (www.themyriadsong.com) and a new disc of songs by Richard Sisson with Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Roderick Williams and James Oxley. On the lighter side, his cabaret duo with soprano Eleanor Meynell Two’s A Crowd continues to perform at venues across the UK (www.twoisacrowd.com).