Thomas Hobbs

Recent highlights have included Bach’s St Matthew Passion for RIAS Kammerchor and the South Netherlands Philharmonic, a programme of selected Bach cantatas on tour with the Constellation Orchestra, Bach’s B Minor Mass at Oregon Bach Festival, and concerts with ensembles including Le Banquet Celeste, Gli Angeli Genève, Les Arts Florissants and Alia Mens. Further highlights include two tours across Europe with the Netherlands Bach Society in Bach’s Magnificat and as the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion, a European tour of the Messiah with the RIAS Kammerchor, Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion with the Bach Collegium Japan, the Dutch Bach Society and on tour with the Netherlands Bach Society, the 25th birthday concert with the Dunedin Consort, Vivaldi’s Vespers with Musikpodium Stuttgart and Kammerchor Stuttgart, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Concerto Copenhagen, Handel’s Messiah with Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Sinfonietta Riga, Tafelmusik Toronto, RIAS Kammerchor, Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bach’s B Minor Mass on a European tour and at the Salzburg Festival with Collegium Vocale Gent and Herreweghe, Haydn’s Creation with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO, Schumann’s Requiem with Richard Egarr and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bach cantatas with Les Violons du Roy, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and he travelled to Australia to sing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Choir of London and Australian Chamber Orchestra. Hobbs performed Bach, Britten and Haydn with the Israel Camerata, sang Handel’s Alexander’s Feast with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, as well as Bach programmes with La Chapelle Harmonique, Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall, and with the Milan Symphony Orchestra.

On the opera stage, Hobbs performed a critically acclaimed Telemachus in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses in a new production for English National Opera conducted by Jonathan Cohen, Apollo and Shepherd in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in semi-staged performances with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music and the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring and Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

Hobbs’ ever-expanding discography includes Bach’s Trinitas with Le Banquet Céleste, Mass in B Minor with both Colegium Vocale Ghent and the Dunedin Consort, a selection of motets, the Leipzig Cantatas and Christmas Oratorio with Colegium Vocale Ghent, Christmas Oratorio with Dunedin Consort, and Weimar Cantatas with Alia Mens. He has recorded Handel’s Acis et Galatea and Esther with the Dunedin Consort and Beethoven’s Mass in C with Stuttgart Kammerchor. His recordings of Handel’s Chandos Anthems with Stephen Layton and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mozart’s Requiem with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort have been universally praised, with the latter receiving the 2014 Gramophone Award for best Choral recording.

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