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Born Harrow, London.

English baritone.

Jerome Knox graduated in Classical Studies at the University of Edinburgh, before studying singing in London at the Royal College of Music with Russell Smythe.  He then trained in Glasgow at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at RCS.  A noted interpreter of baroque repertoire, he won the London Handel singing competition in 2020.

In London he has worked with Garden Opera (Don Giovanni) and Co-Opera Co (Masetto). Other  appearances include Euphonia / Rye Arts (Leporello); Euphonia / Drayton Arms Theatre (Don Pomponio La Gazzetta, Armchair L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Oreste Iphigénie en Tauride); Ryedale Festival (Melisso Alcina); Waterperry Opera (Count Almaviva).

He has worked with English Touring Opera, singing Bach (St John Passion); Handel (Pallante Agrippina); Rimsky-Korsakov (Afron The Golden Cockerel); Puccini (Marcello).  He sang with the Mozartists in concert (Nardo La finta giardiniera).

Operatic work in Scotland includes Edinburgh Studio Opera (Nick Shadow The Rake's Progress, Somnus Semele, Badger and Harašta The Cunning Little Vixen); Magnetic Opera (Schaunard) and Lammermuir Festival / Perth Concert Hall (Melisso Alcina).

While at RCM he created the role of W H Auden in Iain Burnside's Journeying Boys. He performed Cole Porter songs at the Royal Albert Hall and was a soloist at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival.

His concert repertoire includes Bach (St John Passion, B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio); Handel (Dixit Dominus, Alexander's Feast, Messiah); Haydn (Creation, St Cecilia Mass, Nelson Mass); Rossini (Petite Messe Solenelle); Berlioz (L'enfance du Christ); Puccini (Messa di Gloria); Fauré (Requiem); Vaughan Williams (Five Mystical Songs, Dona nobis pacem) and Duruflé (Requiem).

In Germany he gave a recital at the 2022 Handel Festival at Halle.