| Biography | Christopher Monks - founder and Artistic Director of Armonico Consort, Christopher is a dynamic and innovative conductor and keyboard player.
Christopher Monks is the founder and Artistic Director of Armonico Consort, a critically acclaimed choir, baroque orchestra and opera company performing over 40 concerts every year. In addition to this, he has conducted other groups including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia and European Union Chamber Orchestra.
He has conducted at many of the major concert halls in the UK including the Barbican, Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall in London, the Bridgwater Hall in Manchester, St Davids Hall in Cardiff, the RSC in Stratford and venues abroad in Tel Aviv, Naples, Paris, Dublin and Sardinia. He has also worked regularly with most of the major UK festivals including Hampton Court Palace, The Henley Festival, Brighton, Bath, Chelsea, Cambridge, Oxford and Canterbury. His recordings, which have earned him worldwide critical acclaim, are played every week on Classic Fm and BBC Radio 3, in addition to radio stations across the globe.
Prior to his work with Armonico Consort, Christopher studied music at the University of Cambridge, and then with David Hill at Winchester Cathedral, before collaborating with many of the worlds greatest conductors as a keyboard player with the CBSO. |