Tenor: James Hancock
Tenor: James Hancock VIDEOS
Tenor: James Hancock PHOTOS
James was born in Melbourne. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts he was a Victoria State Opera Young Artist and was awarded the Opera Foundation Australia German Operatic Award (which gave him a contract at Oper Köln in the Opera Studio), Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship, Tait Memorial Trust Scholarship, Australian Opera Auditions Committee Scholarship, Australian Musical Foundation London grant: American Institute of Musical Studies Scholarship and a Bayreuth Bursary.
Companies he has worked for include: Victoria State Opera; Melbourne Opera: Opera Australia; Siegmund (cover); Meistersingers Ltd; Pocket Opera Nürnberg (Der Ring in einem Abend arr. David Seaman) at the Covent Garden and Bath Festival; Cambridge University Opera Society (Bill, Maschinist Hopkins at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Brand; Der Mann Schwergewicht, Krenek; and The Mayor Der Held, Mosolov); UCL Opera (The King, The King and the Marshal, [Drot og Mask], Heise). Siegfried/ Siegmund (cover) Longborough Festival Opera; Siegfried & Götterdämmerung Edinburgh Players Opera Group (recorded) and Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos with Abbey Opera at St Johns’ Smith Square.
James has an extensive concert and recital repertoire, including Verdi’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijahand Bach’s Weinacht Oratorium; Song repertoire includes Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin (Schubert) and Dichterliebe, Liederkreis (Schumann). Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge, ButterworthShropshire Lad and Vaughan William’s Songs of Travel.
- Phantom of the Opera
- Les Miserables
- Chess
- Westside Story
- Sound of Music
- Fiddler on the roof
- Opera
- Nessun Dorma
- Brindisi from La Traviata
- Vesti la giubba
- Quando le sere al placido
- plus many more by request
- Modern Classics
- The Prayer
- Time to say goodbye
- Musicals
- O sole mio
- Catari Catari ( Core'ngrato )
- Mattinata
- Torna a surriento
- Frank Sinatra Classics
- My Way
- The Impossible Dream
- Begin the Beguine
- Night and Day
- Come fly with me
- I've got you under my skin
- The Lady is a Tramp
- Strangers in the Night
- Classic Italian Songs
- Meistersingers Ltd
- UCL Opera
- And Many More...
- Victoria State Opera
- Cambridge University Opera Society
- Longborough Festival Opera
- Covent Garden and Bath Festival
" "The musical highlight of the evening came from James Hancock’s brilliant projection of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel.” "
Musical opinion Denby Richards
" ”Most striking of all was James Hancock……with pleasing voice and committed delivery.” "
www.classicalsource.comNick Breckenfield
" "He sang the Strauss group with a thrilling voice of searing intensity" "
Melbourne Age, Clive Connell
" “The heroically ringing voice of James Hancock rang throughout the theatre” "
Siegfried – Pocket Opera Nuremberg, Covent Garden FestivalThe Spectator, Michael Tanner
