William Unwin – Tenor

Will started his musical life as a chorister in Salisbury Cathedral under the guidance and training of Dr Richard Seal and David Halls. During those five years he got his first taste of tours, broadcasts and recordings, most notably the Monteverdi Choir recording of Fauré’s Requiem featuring the boys of Salisbury Cathedral under Sir John Eliot Gardiner in 1991.

After a music scholarship at Marlborough College in Wiltshire Will won a choral scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read music. Whilst at Magdalen he toured Japan and performed in countless concerts with several choirs including Schola Cantorum and The Oxford Chamber Choir. Will sang for several years with The National Youth Choir of Great Britain under Mike Brewer and toured the Pacific ring with them in 1996. After graduating in 2000, Will was a lay-clerk with the choir of New College, Oxford for three years, with whom he performed throughout Europe and made several recordings, including Pergolesi’s Marian Vespers and Bach’s St John Passion, where he features as the servant.

Within the consort world, Will sings with various top-class ensembles including The Sixteen, The King’s Consort, Polyphony, The Gabrieli Consort, The Monteverdi Choir and Alamire. With these groups, Will has toured all over the world, including several recent trips across Europe and to the States. Recent concerts include performances of Handel’s Messiah with The Sixteen, the Mozart and Biber Requiems with the Gabrieli Consort and the Monteverdi Vespers in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, with the Monteverdi Choir. He is also a loyal member of Sarum Voices and has performed and recorded with them widely in Salisbury and beyond.

With these groups Will has made numerous recordings, including the Biber Requiem and Monteverdi’s Vespers (one-to-a-part) with The Gabrieli Consort, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle with The Kings Consort, various award winning recordings with Polyphony, including Cloudburst and a number of recordings with The Sixteen. He has also made several highly acclaimed recordings with Alamire on the Obsidian lable. These recordings are all available to buy on Amazon or to download on iTunes.

Will performs frequently as a soloist with several choral societies and choruses, with regular repertoire including Handel’s Messiah, Samson and Solomon, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Bach’s B Minor Mass and St John Passion. He has featured as a soloist a number of times in Salisbury Cathedral, most notably at the 2006 Southern Cathedrals Festival in the gala concert of Mozart’s Requiem.