Jonathan Hanley
Tenor
The British tenor Jonathan Hanley is active both as a soloist and as a choral singer, and focuses especially on Baroque vocal music. He regularly collaborates with some of the world’s finest vocal ensembles and has appeared at renowned concert venues and at international festivals such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Bozar in Brussels, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, La Scala, Milan, the London Handel Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included an extensive programme with Stile Antico, tours with John Eliot Gardiner’s newly founded Constellation Choir, Bach’s St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Johanna Soller and further Bach works with Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
He enjoys especially close working relationships with the vocal ensemble Stile Antico and the Monteverdi Choir. He is also a member of the Sansara Choir and has worked regularly with the Tallis Scholars, Vox Luminis, the Gabrieli Consort, The English Concert and the BBC Singers.
Recent repertory has included Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio and Passions, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, José de Nebra’s Responsorios de Navidad, Mendelssohn’s Erste Walpurgisnacht and Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas. He has also performed in staged productions of Handel’s Semele, and of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini and Les Troyens.
As a keen chamber musician, he focuses especially on English songs and Lieder and collaborates regularly with the pianist Gavin Roberts.
His discography includes recordings with ensembles such as the Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen and La Grande Chapelle, along with Stephen Dodgson’s contemporary opera Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart (Naxos).
Jonathan Hanley was born in Suffolk, studied at the University of York, was a member of the Genesis Sixteen programme and completed the training programme of the Monteverdi Choir.