Live in recital, Yale University, Spring 2021
Handel Society of Dartmouth College, Fall 2022
Joining Ensemble Altera for a program of warm and spirited seasonal music all from the 21st century.
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Acapella choral works the 16th century to today celebrating the holiday season.
Featuring the motets "Singet dem Herrn", "Komm, Jesu, Komm" and Cantata 80 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott".
Vocal and instrumental music by Purcell, including selections from Dido and Aeneas.
Touring Ohio and Chicago in celebration of AF's stellar recording of Israel in Egypt.
An expanded roster of Apollo's Singers joins the NY Philharmonic for a spectacular rendition of Handel's masterwork.
Featuring works of Solomone Rossi, one of the few Jewish composers to write in the polyphonic Italian baroque style.
Choral works celebrating love, including Brahm's first book of Liebeslieder Walzer.
Celebrating works of women composers from several centuries, featuring guest conductor Elena Sharkova.
Artefact Ensemble and the Experiental Orchestra present Pärts Passio, as well as works by Benedict Sheehan.
Joining Artefact for Hymns of Embodiment, Ruin, and Rebirth - Choral works by Aaron Copland, Caroline Shaw, Trevor Weston, Eudenice Palaruan, Amy Messenger, David Hendrix + Benedict Sheehan.
Altera celebrates the release of The Lamb's Journey with appearances in Dallas, TX.
John Walthausen leads a stellar quartet of soloists for a one-on-a-part performance of Bach's cantata BWV 146:Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal.
Cut Circle joins the music department at Princeton for a weeklong residency digging into historical performance of Josquin and Ockeghem, including study of original manuscripts.
Debuting at Trinity Wall St. with Bach's early masterwork Cantata 106 Actus Tragicus, as well as Bruhns motet Paratum cor meum.
Partimenti presents From Court to Country, a program of works from the medieval to 17th century that explore composers' takes on the civilized and the rustic.
Trinity continues a fantasic season with Monteverdi's spiritual masterwork.
Making my debut performance of Christus in Bach's St. John Passion in New Hampshire and Vermont's beautiful Upper Valley.
Filament presents the stunning Meine freundin, du bist shön and other cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach's famous uncle.
For all inquries, contact chris.r.talbot (at) gmail.com
Bass-baritone Christopher Talbot is a versatile performer at home with a wide variety of repertoire, from the medieval to the present day. Praised for his “voice of warmth and strength” (Classical Review), he has performed with major ensembles across the U.S., including Seraphic Fire, The Thirteen, Apollo’s Fire, The Crossing, and the Carmel Bach Festival, where he was a 2023 Virginia Best Adams vocal fellow.
Having a particular affinity for Baroque music, Chris has been fortunate to study with some of the world’s foremost Baroque vocalists, including James Taylor and Bernarda Fink while earning his master’s degree at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, and Peter Harvey and Emma Kirkby while at the Internationale Bachakademie masterclass in Stuttgart, Germany. Highlights of 2023 include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Choral Arts Philadelphia, works of Mozart and C.P.E. Bach at the Staunton Music Festival in Virginia, a program of Italian madrigals with Parthenia Viol Consort in New York City, and John Luther Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth with The Crossing and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A lifelong choral singer, Chris got his start as an 8-year old treble in the All Saints Choirs of Worcester, MA.
Chris is also a passionate music technologist and producer. While at Yale he served as a teaching assistant for a code-based computer music course, and maintains an active freelance career as an audio/video engineer and web designer. He also serves as a consulting software engineer for New Muses Project, a non-profit organization founded at Yale dedicated to the discovery and performance of works by under-represented composers.
When not singing, he can be found writing and recording original music, cooking, and cycling the bike paths around his home in Philadelphia.