Media

Repertoire Includes

Concert

BACH

Cantatas 4, 8, 11, 42, 55, 61, 75, 78, 100, 103, 106, 109, 116, 144,

150, 157, 171, 198, 201, 207, 213, 214

Johannes-passion (Evangelist & arias)

Magnificat in D/Eb

Mass in A

Mass in B Minor

Matthäus-passion (Evangelist & arias)

Weihnachts-oratorium (Evangelist & arias)

C.P.E. BACH

Johannespassion

Magnificat

BEETHOVEN

Mass in C

BRITTEN

Les Illuminations

Serenade

St Nicolas

War Requiem

BRUCKNER

Mass in D

CHARPENTIER

Messe de minuit pour Nöel

CHILCOTT

Requiem

DUSSEK

Mass in G

DVOŘÁK

Stabat Mater

HANDEL

Alexander’s Feast

Brockes-Passion

„Chandos“ Anthems

Dixit Dominus

Israel in Egypt

Jephtha

L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato

Messiah

Solomon

HAYDN

Creation

Missa in Angustiis “Nelson Mass”

Missa in Tempora Belli

The Seasons

Theresienmesse

LEIGHTON

Crucifixus pro nobis

MACMILLAN

All the hills and vales along

MAHLER

Das Lied von der Erde (Schoenberg/Riehn chamber arrangement)

MENDELSSOHN

Elijah

St Paul

Symphony No 2 “Lobgesang”

MONTEVERDI

Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610

MOZART

Krönungsmesse

Mass in C minor

Requiem

ORFF

Carmina Burana

SCHUBERT
Mass in G

SCHÜTZ

Weihnachtshistorie

WOLF

Passionsoratorium

Opera

BERKELEY

A Dinner Engagement (H.R.H. Prince Philippe)

BRITTEN 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander)

de’ CAVALIERI

Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo (Intelletto)

DEBUSSY

Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas)

DOVE     

Siren Song (Davey)

GLUCK

Bauci e Filemone (Giove)

HANDEL

Acis & Galatea (Damon)

Ariodante (Lurcanio)

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HASSE

Piramo e Tisbe (Il padre)

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BARNABY MARTIN

Far from the Madding Crowd (Sgt Troy)

MONTEVERDI

L’incoronazione di Poppea (Lucano, Valletto, Arnalta, Liberto, highest Famigliare, primo soldato, secondo soldato)

Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Eurimaco, Giove, Telemacho)

PUCCINI

Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo)

PURCELL

Fairy Queen (Attendant, Phoebus, Summer &c.)

Dido & Aeneas (Sailor)

RAMEAU

Zaïs (Un sylph)

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MATT ROGERS

And London Burned (Smith)

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JOEL RUST

Nauset

STRAVINSKY

The Rake’s Progress (Tom Rakewell, Sellem)

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Various, arr. FIŠERA/KAMPS

Be With Me Now

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KATE WHITLEY

0520  

Bonesong

Unknown Position

Press

“We had in tenor Gwilym Bowen a seraphic herald of good tidings: looking with golden curls like a Botticelli angel, his exquisitely gentle ‘Comfort ye’ hung in the air like a beam of light...his melting tone provided a fine contrast with the robust contributions of seasoned bass Neal Davies”

Helen Wallace, BBC Music Magazine

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“something of a rising glory”

Geoff Brown, The Times
 

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Handel BROCKES PASSION / Academy of Ancient Music

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“Peter’s agony is particularly well caught by the tenor Gwilym Bowen”

Geoff Brown, The Times

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“The young tenor Gwilym Bowen emerges as one of the most exciting voices on the set, raging furiously in the bravura ‘Gift und Glut’"

Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical

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“an intensely dramatic Peter, whether in his splenetic outburst at Judas’s betrayal (‘Gift und Glut’) or his own self-lacerating remorse (‘Heul, du Schaum!’)””

Richard Wigmore, Gramophone
 

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Monteverdi L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA / Angers-Nantes Opera

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"We note the piquant Valetto of Gwilym Bowen, with never-failing articulation: it's a true pleasure to "taste the text" in these scenes, Bowen revealing the exasperation as much as the sensual outbursts of which the character is capable"

Alexandre Pham, classiquenews
 

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Berkeley A DINNER ENGAGEMENT / Royal Academy of Music Opera

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"As Sellem, Gwilym Bowen offered a very different sense of humour, utterly captivating, never outstaying its welcome, and likewise never at the expense of excellent musical values, line and attention to the words exemplary"

Mark Berry, Seen & Heard International
 

James Macmillan ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG / Edinburgh International Festival

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“Bowen articulated Sorley’s brutally honest account of war with heart-felt passion”

Susan Nickalls, The Scotsman
 

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Bach WEIHNACHTS-ORATORIUM / Australian Chamber Orchestra

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"All of this glory was outshone by young tenor Gwilym Bowen...Vibrant, expressive, agile and dramatic, this crowned an astounding array of vocal quality throughout the performance"

David Barmby, Limelight
 

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Bach MASS IN B MINOR / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Cond. Layton)

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“I relished Bowen’s nicely plangent tone which also has underlying strength. This is very accomplished singing"

John Quinn, Music Web International
 

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Bach MATTHÄUS-PASSION / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

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"The Evangelist, Gwilym Bowen, was a consistently intense presence, plangent and vocally at ease even in the highest-lying sections of his part. This was the most immersed I’ve seen an Evangelist in the drama, at turns grief-stricken and desperate...yet all felt in service of the music, never detracting from it"

Simon Holden, Bachtrack

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"If Bach's St Matthew Passion were his opera manqué, then Gwilym Bowen's Evangelist achieved divo status. He delivered narrative as living drama, never missing a detail or inflection"

William Dart, New Zealand Herald
 

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Handel MESSIAH / Seattle Symphony Orchestra

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"Bowen made the kind of impact not heard here since the lone Messiah appearance in Seattle of the great English tenor Philip Langridge, back in the late 1970s. Lyrical and agile, with considerable expressive depth, Bowen delivered every phrase as if it had just occurred to him, with unfailingly expressive spontaneity. His Thy rebuke was positively heart-rending"

Melinda Bargreen, Seattle Times

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