Born: England

The English counter-tenor, William Towers, read English at Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 1996, he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he won several prizes including the Clifton prize for the best Final Recital.

William Towers is a founding member of an a capella ensemble Henry's Eight with whom he continues to record and perform. In addition to recordings with Henry's Eight, he has recorded Verse Anthems by William Child and a reconstruction of Bach's St Mark Passion (BWV 247). His live appearances have included Händel's Messiah, Poro, Lotario, Rinaldo and the Foundling Hospital Anthem, Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), Orff's Carmina Burana, Gluck's Orfeus ed Euridice, B. Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and performances in the John Eliot Gardiner Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000.

Source: The Cantata Pilgrimage brochure (December 2000)
Contributed by Galina Kolomietz (May 2001) Website

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

John Eliot Gardiner

Alto

BWV 113
BCP: BWV 5, BWV 12, BWV 26, BWV 48, BWV 71, BWV 79, BWV 80, BWV 81, BWV 85, BWV 88, BWV 90, BWV 93, BWV 99, BWV 100, BWV 103, BWV 110, BWV 112, BWV 121, BWV 131, BWV 138, BWV 146, BWV 151

Geoffrey Webber

Alto

BWV 247

Links to other Sites

William Towers (Workingham Bach Society)

St Mark Passion (Belfast Philharmonic Society)

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