William Towers (Counter-tenor)

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William Towers (Counter-tenor)
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 J.S. Bach's St Mark Passion (BWV 247). His live appearances have included Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah, Poro, Lotario, Rinaldo and the Foundling Hospital Anthem, J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), Orff's Carmina Burana, Gluck's Orfeus ed Euridice, Benjamin 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 36, BWV 48, BWV 62, 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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