Declan Hickey – Guitar   Daniel Gilchrist – Tenor

It’s a great pleasure once again to welcome Declan on a return visit to St. Cross

Daniel will be singing a group of English Folk Song arrangements composed by Alec Roth, who is a Brother at St Cross Hospital.

Daniel Gilchrist

Daniel grew up in the lovely town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where he had excellent instruction in music at Pate’s Grammar School from Ellie Lane and Warwick Cole. A first-study cellist as a teenager, his focus shifted to singing whilst studying at Cambridge, where he sang in the choir of Gonville & Caius college under various directors, and later for a year in that of King’s College under Daniel Hyde. Following a two year period living in Oxford, where he was engaged as a Lay Clerk by New College Choir and sang frequently with the Oxford Bach Soloists, and two great years in Hatfield, recently voted (quite wrongly) the fifth most boring town in the world, he now lives in Woolwich, Greater London.

​Daniel has a very keen interest in Lieder and English song, and with accompanists including Lilly Vadaneaux and Tammas Slater has given well-received recitals encompassing several key song cycles from both traditions, including Beethoven’s An die Ferne Geliebte, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 39, and Finzi’s ’til Earth outwears. 

​He has significant experience in oratorio and particularly in Bach cantatas, as well as delivering one of the Evangelist parts in Bach’s contemporary Stölzel’s excellent passion setting at the Three Choirs Festival in 2023. He is also developing an increasing interest in opera. ​Daniel is also the musical director of early-music focused consort Selene, founded in Oxford in 2022.