William Towers (Counter-tenor)

Born: England

The English counter-tenor, William Towers, read English at Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 1996, he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he won several prizes including the Clifton prize for the best Final Recital.

William Towers is a founding member of an a capella ensemble Henry's Eight with whom he continues to record and perform. In addition to recordings with Henry's Eight, he has recorded Verse Anthems by William Child and a reconstruction of J.S. Bach's St Mark Passion (BWV 247). His live appearances have included George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Poro, Lotario, Rinaldo and the Foundling Hospital Anthem, J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), Orff's Carmina Burana, Gluck's Orfeus ed Euridice, Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and performances in the John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000.

Source: The Cantata Pilgrimage brochure (December 2000)
Contributed by Galina Kolomietz (May 2001) Website

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

John Eliot Gardiner

Alto

BWV 113
BCP: BWV 5, BWV 12, BWV 26, BWV 36, BWV 38, BWV 48, BWV 62, BWV 71, BWV 79, BWV 80, BWV 81, BWV 85, BWV 88, BWV 90, BWV 93, BWV 98, BWV 99, BWV 100, BWV 103, BWV 109, BWV 110, BWV 112, BWV 121, BWV 131, BWV 138, BWV 146, BWV 151, BWV 188

John Eliot Gardiner

Alto

Member of Monteverdi Choir:
BCP Vol. 3: CD-1: BWV 71; CD-2: BWV 131, BWV 93, BWV 88
BCP Vol. 4: CD-1: BWV 9, J. Kuhnau/J.S. Bach: Motet Der Gerechte kömmt um
BCP Vol. 5: CD-2: BWV 46, BWV 101, BWV 102
BCP Vol. 7: CD-2: BWV 50, BWV 130, BWV 19, BWV 149
BCP Vol. 8: CD-1: BWV 138, BWV 99, BWV 100
BCP Vol. 10: CD-1: BWV 48, BWV 5, BWV 90, BWV 56; CD-2: BWV 79, BWV 192, BWV 80
BCP Vol. 11: CD-1: BWV 162, BWV 180; CD-2: BWV 109, BWV 38, BWV 98, BWV 188
BCP Vol. 13: CD-1: BWV 61, BWV 62, BWV 36; CD-2: BWV 70, BWV 132, BWV 147
BCP Vol. 14: BWV 91, BWV 121, BWV 40, BWV 110
BCP Vol. 15: BWV 64, BWV 151, BWV 57, BWV 133
BCP Vol. 16: BWV 225, BWV 122, BWV 28, BWV 190
BCP Vol. 19: CD-1: BWV 155, BWV 3, BWV 13; CD-2: BWV 26, BWV 81, BWV 14, BWV 227
BCP Vol. 21: CD-2: BWV 182, BWV 1
BCP Vol. 22: CD-1: BWV 4 [2^nd], BWV 31, BWV 66 [2^nd]; CD-2: BWV 6 [2^nd], BWV 134, BWV 145
BCP Vol. 23: CD-1: BWV 150, BWV 67, BWV 42, BWV 158; CD-2: BWV 104, BWV 85, BWV 112
BCP Trinity I: BWV 94, BWV 105, BWV 168
BCP Trinity II: BWV 113, BWV 179
BCP Purification: BWV 83, BWV 125
BWV 245 [2^nd, 2003]

Geoffrey Webber

Alto

[V-1] (1998): BWV 247 [Arias, Judah, High Priest, Soldier, Centurion]

Jos van Veldhoven

Alto

BWV 110 [1^st], BWV 243

Links to other Sites

William Towers (Workingham Bach Society)
St Mark Passion (Belfast Philharmonic Society)