Chris Watson (singer)

Christopher Watson is a British tenor specialising in Early music, Baroque and Contemporary repertoire.

Born in Leamington Spa on 10 January 1969, and raised in Canterbury, Kent in England, Watson studied tuba before reading music at the University of Exeter. Having sung in and directed Exeter University Chapel Choir, and a spell as a choral scholar at Exeter Cathedral, he went on to hold positions as lay clerk at Durham Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Westminster Cathedral. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia, where he is the Director of Music of the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne. While based in Europe he regularly sang as a soloist, and as a consort singer with The Tallis Scholars, with whom he made more than 500 appearances, Alamire, Gallicantus and Collegium Vocale Gent. He also performed regularly with Tenebrae and Theatre of Voices, among others. His conducting work includes the Oxford-based chamber choir Sospiri, the chapel choir of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.