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The English tenor, Gopal Kambo, read music at St John’s College, Cambridge (2015-2018) with a first-class degree in Music and subsequently earned an MPhil in 2020. During that time he, he was a Choral Scholar in the St John's College, Cambridge, with whom he sang daily services as well as undertaking frequent international tours, broadcasting and recording projects. He was also Assistant Musical Director of the Gentlemen of St John’s. In Cambridge, he enjoyed appearing frequently as a soloist and in consorts. Recently, he has sung solos in the termly J.S. Bach Cantata series at St John’s, the Kilgour Consort's Mass in B minor BWV 232 & Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 (Evangelist) and in H. Purcell’s Hail, Bright Cecilia with the University’s Collegium Musicum and Chamber Choir. He has also enjoyed singing with Gesualdo Six and Tenebrae (Director: Nigel Short).
Now, alongside working in finance in London, Gopal Kambo maintains a career in singing, appearing as an oratorio soloist and consort singer as regularly as possible. In 2022, he was privileged to sing at the Platinum Jubilee and Funeral Services of HRH Queen Elizabeth II with the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. In March 2023, he sang the Evangelist in J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 at All Saint's Church in Hertford with the Eboracum Baroque directed by Manvinder Rattan. |
