Christopher Watson studied music at Exeter University, and went on to hold lay clerkships at Durham, Oxford and latterly Westminster Cathedrals. He now lives in Oxford and divides his time between solo and consort work.

Recent solo performances have included Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum with the CBSO in Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Pilate in Arvo Part's Passio in Gloucester Cathedral, and Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia in Beaune with the Gabrieli Consort. He has collaborated with Trevor Pinnock in concerts of Purcell Welcome Odes in the Handel Festival in Halle, and has achieved great critical acclaim for his performances of the Evangelist in Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions - most recently in Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, in the Cathedral Church of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City and Manchester Cathedral.

Last year he made his debuts at the Edinburgh Festival and at Carnegie Hall in New York with Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier, and he recently made his solo debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Gabrieli Consort. Other engagements include the first performance of The Stones of the Arch by Gavin Bryars with the Kronos Quartet, Monteverdi's Vespers in Tuscany with Philippe Herreweghe and in Wrocław and Venice with Paul McCreesh, Mendelssohn's Elijah in Wells Cathedral and a European tour of Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro with Philippe Herreweghe.

He has made more than 40 recordings, ranging from several discs of Dufay and Josquin to the Schütz Resurrection History with Ars Nova Copenhagen and David Lang's Pulitzer Prize winning The Little Match Girl Passion with Theatre of Voices. In December he is touring a program of Schütz sacred music with Collegium Vocale Gent, and plans for next year include recordings of the Bach Motets and the complete Cantiones Sacrae of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd and a series of concerts celebrating the 500^th anniversary of the coronation of King Henry the 8th.

He has made several appearances at the Proms in London and has performed in Cathedrals and concert halls all over the world, from San Marco in Venice and Notre Dame in Paris to Sydney Opera House and the Lincoln Center in New York. Christopher has a great deal of experience as a consort singer - he is a member of Tenebrae, Alamire and the Gramophone Award winning ensembles The Clerks' Group and The Binchois Consort. He has worked with the viol consorts Fretwork and Phantasm, sings regularly with Polyphony, The Gabrieli Consort, Theatre of Voices, the Soloists of Collegium Vocale Gent and the Netherlands Bach Society, and has made more than 150 appearances with The Tallis Scholars.