The versatile bass Jack Comerford is active both as a musician and as a teacher and researcher. He studied music at the University of York and at the Royal College of Music, from where he graduated with a double diploma in Performance and Academic Research.
Jack Comerford works regularly with orchestras and vocal ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Britten Sinfonia, The Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort & Players and I Fagiolini.
Performance highlights have included tours of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigénie en Tauride under Laurence Cummings in Romania, Bach’s Mass in B minor under Václav Luks in Poland, performances of motets by Bach under Harry Christophers at the BBC Proms, the Gramophone Award-winning album A Venetian Coronation 1595 under Paul McCreesh, Delius’s Hassan under Jamie Phillips, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis under John Eliot Gardiner at the BBC Proms and Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Monteverdi Choir under Dinis Sousa at Carnegie Hall.
Recent solo engagements include Bach cantatas with the London Handel Players, Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Bach’s Mass in B minor with The Hanover Band and Handel’s Israel in Egypt on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under Peter Whelan.
Jack Comerford is currently working on a doctorate on music-making in the 18th century and arrangements of Handel’s oratorios, as part of the Music Performance Research Group at the University of Southampton. He has received a Handel Institute Research Award and recently appeared as a guest speaker on BBC Radio 3.
