Tenor.

Actually, everyone calls me by my first name, John. Don't ask - it's all Equity's fault! I'm now the “old man” of Gothic Voices, having joined up in 1984, and so my name appears on all except the first two of our twenty-one CDs.

My potted biography includes singing with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, the Deller Consort, the London Early Music Group, the Landini Consort (where I first met Chris Page playing his lute), the Taverner Consort and seven years as a member of the Hilliard Ensemble. I was a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge in the Willcocks era and I'm a Lay Vicar of Westminster Abbey (where I was also once a chorister.)

I've been incredibly lucky to have been a member of the group since its formative years, retrieving Chris Page's casually dropped pearls of medieval wisdom along the way (not to mention his socks abandoned in dressing rooms the world over) and gradually gained some insight into the thought processes of medieval composition. Since Chris has stepped back from direction of the group, I have put together our concert programmes and looked after internal management.

Leisure activities include bird-watching, walking with my wife Janet and trying to make sense of interesting ruins (archaeological, that is!). I can bore for Britain on the subject of organs and was fortunate to see one designed to my specifications installed in the Parish Church where I was once organist.

What is Leigh after?

As Gothic Voices approaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, I am very grateful to have had a part in moving medieval music towards the mainstream.