Joseph Hancock

Joseph Hancock is a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies with Mark Wildman and Janet Haney. Whilst at the Academy he has won the Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize with The Duke’s Consort, of which he is a founding member, the Flora Nielsen Prize and was Highly Commended in the Michael Head Prize.

Joseph began singing as a Chorister at New College Oxford, and then sang as a Choral Scholar and Lay Clerk in the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, directed by Andrew Nethsingha and Christopher Gray. In recent years he has been a member of the Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme at Pembroke College, and a Scholar with vocal ensemble Voces8, with whom he continues to work as a member of their Education Team and Scholars Ensemble.

Recent solo concert highlights include performances of the Evangelist role in Bach's 'St John Passion' and ‘Christmas Oratorio’, Mozart’s ‘Requiem’, Haydn’s ‘The Creation’, Handel’s ‘Messiah’, and the title role in Britten’s ‘St Nicholas’. Operatic roles include Remendado (Carmen, Bizet) for Royal Academy Opera, Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia, Britten), Nettuno and Pastore (La liberazione di Ruggiero, Caccini), Prince Charming (Cendrillon, Viardot), and Opera Scenes at the Royal Academy of Music as Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Britten) as well as premiere performances of two short operas for the Opera Makers programme at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Tête à Tête Festival. 

Joseph also maintains a busy schedule of choral and consort work, and has performed with ensembles including Voces8 & The Voces8 Scholars Ensemble, Polyphony, Sinfonia of London Chorus, ORA Singers, Armonico Consort, and Continuum, and is a member of the professional quartet at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square. 

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