ARTIST PROFILE:
Stuart Kinsella

Stuart Kinsella is a tenor soloist and consort singer whose experience includes the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, Vlaams Radiokoor in Brussels, Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna, Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova and Musica Ficta in Copenhagen, Coro Casa da Música in Porto, as well as Chamber Choir Ireland and Resurgam.

His cathedral career has spanned the Irish choirs of Christ Church and St Patrick’s in Dublin and the English choirs of Durham and Christ Church, Oxford. As a soloist, he has sung as evangelist in Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie, Distler’s Weihnachtsgeschichte and Bach’s St John Passion, the sprechstimme in James MacMillan’s Seven Angels with the Vlaams Radiokoor touring Belgium (2019) and Tristan in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé with Léo Warynski in Porto (2021).

He recorded the 1742 Messiah with a twelve-voice Irish Baroque Orchestra chorus (2024), and sang in their expanded chorus for Handel’s Alexander’s Feast at the BBC Proms in August. In October, he reprised a James Joyce themed programme with harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, at the East Cork Choral Festival. Stuart also directs a vocal ensemble, Peregryne, who enjoy singing medieval polyphony from the Eton choir book for the office of Compline.