Born in Salisbury, he received his musical training as bith a Chorister and a Choral Scholar at Kings`s College, Cambridge, and at the Royal College of Music in London where he studied under Edward Brooks.
He has made over sixty recordings as a soloist including Handel`s Messah with the Gabrieli Consort for Deutsche Grammophon, Dowland songs for EMI, Handel`s Alexander Balus with the King`s Consort for Hyperion, The Beggar`s Opera for Hyperion, Schütz`Christmas Story for Deutsche Grammophon, Haydn`s St Cecilia Mass with the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra, Bach`s Easter Oratorio with the Taverner Consort for EMI, Airs de Cour with Catherine King and Jacob Heringman, Bach`s Christmas Oratorio with Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti for Radio Svizzera Italiana, Handel Occasional songs with Emma Kirkby for SOMM records and more than twenty discs of Purcell`s music, with The King`s Consort, Les Arts Florissants and The Gabrieli Consort.
Operatic roles have included Le Dieu de Sommeil in Lully`s Atys for the Opera de Paris and a leading role in Purcell`s Fairy Queen in the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Concert engagements have included regular appearances at the BBC Promenade Concerts, Handel`s Joshua (London Handel Festival, broadcast by BBC Radio 3), Mendelssohn`s Elijah (Fribourg), the Evangelist in Bach`s St John Passion (London, with the Academy of Ancient Music); Elgar`s Dream of Gerontius (Winchester Cathedral), luigi Nono`s Canti di Vita e Amore (Edinburgh Festival), Handel Solomon (Halle and Göttingen Handel-Festspielen); Michael Zev Gordon Song and Stravinsky Cantata (Spitalfields Festival), Handel`s L`Allegro with the King`s Consort (Milan and Ferrara), Britten`s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings (St Gallen); Cavalieri`s Anima e Corpo (Schwabische Gmund), Puccini Messa di gloria with the Orchestra and Choir of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Casella La Giara conducted by George Benjamin with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 16th century TenorLied with Fretwork in Antwerp in the Flanders Festival, Britten War Requiem with the Orchestra National de Lille for the Canterbury Festival, Finzi`s Dies Natalis (Brinkburn Festival), Handel`s Messiah (Brussels, Utrecht, Oslo, Madrid, London (Westminster Abbey, Barbican), Bogota, Lugano for Radio Svizzera Italiana), Schubert Mass in Eb with London Philharmonic Orchestra; Handel`s Esther in Hebrew in New York, Purcell`s King Arthur in Toronto with Tafelmusik and the Premiere of Wojciech Kilar`s Missa pro pace with the Warsaw Philharmonic, in Warsaw and recently in Pome for the Pope.