MUSIC

In rehearsal as Soloist in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the Festival Chorale de Paris July 2013 conducted by Andre Thomas

Oliver Gerrish as Alto soloist at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, March 2015 with the Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi and Cambridge Baroque Ensemble.

Oliver Gerrish and some singers with Gyles Brandreth in Handel House for the BBC's The One Show.

Oliver gerrish is a versatile English countertenor, equally at home with the traditional musical heritage of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as contemporary compositions.

He has performed internationally with many leading conductors and accompanists, including Andre Jerome Thomas, Christopher Bucknall, David Bates, Crispin Steele-Perkins, Laurence Cummings, Graham Walker and Oliver Gooch. Masterclass performances include those with James Bowman, Derek Lee Ragin and Emma Kirkby.

As an operatic singer, Oliver was critically acclaimed in both Opera and Opera Britannia for his role of Artabano in Hasse’s ‘Artaserse’ with Ensemble Serse. He has twice sung the lead male role in Toni Castell’s contemporary opera ‘Life from Light’, most recently in august 2014 for the Teta-a-Tete Festival at Kings Place, and recorded the album of the opera. He was lead alongside spinto soprano Meeta Raval in Castells’ latest opera ‘2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal?’ at St James’s Piccadilly and Cowdray Park, Sussex, in July 2016.

Oliver is in demand as an international concert soloist and has performed in Switzerland, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Italy, Bermuda, New York, Italy, France and Spain, with, among other ensembles, The Philharmonia Orchestra. Oliver performed the world premier of Cecilia McDowall’s ‘White Bee’ in 2013. Recent performances include Bach's St. John Passion at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, an evening of opera with Meeta Raval at Worksop College, a recital for the Penkhull Festival (chosen by the Patron of the Festival, James Bowman), Handel's Messiah for the Fiftieth Church Stretton Festival and soloist alongside The Philharmonia orchestra at the Klosters Christmas Festival in December 2016 and the summer festival in 2019.

he is a Deputy Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey and a Deputy Lay Clerk at St Paul’s Cathedral. From 2014 until 2023 he was alto in the choir of st john’s wood parish church in london.

Oliver began his professional musical training as Alto Choral Scholar at Lichfield Cathedral and from there went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Listen to Oliver singing in Toni Castells' opera - 2045: the year man becomes immortal?

Chelsea Concerts

The incentive behind Chelsea Concerts - founded in 2009 by friends Alexandra Kennedy (soprano) and Oliver Gerrish (countertenor), was to create a platform for talented, young Classical musicians, and in so doing to attract a more diverse audience than would usually listen to Classical music.

The bi-annual concerts in aid of charities have become a firm fixture in the musical and social diary of the Royal Borough.