Zoë Brookshaw

Originally from Nottingham, soprano Zoë Brookshaw was a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, an apprentice in the Monteverdi Choir and a Rising Star of the Enlightenment with the OAE for their 2019-2021 season.

Now an established soloist, notable performances include Bach Matthew Passion (Sir John Eliot Gardiner), Handel Israel in Egypt at the Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms (William Christie and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), ‘Aci’ in Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with OAE, Mozart Exultate Jubilate with Noord Nederlands Orkest and Jos van Veldhoven, Bach John Passion at Wigmore Hall and Bach Fest Leipzig (Solomon’s Knot), Monteverdi Lamento Della Ninfa at Carnegie Hall (Gallicantus) and the title role in Handel Esther at Wigmore Hall (Solomon’s Knot).

Opera credits include ‘Aerial Spirit’ in Opéra National de Lyon’s production of Purcell Indian Queen with Emmanuelle Haim, ‘Eurydice’ and ‘La Musica’ in Monteverdi Orfeo for Robert Hollingworth, ‘the statue’ in Rameau Pygmalion with John Butt and Dunedin Consort and soloist in Purcell Fairy Queen, King Arthur and Dido and Aeneas for Paul McCreesh. Other productions with Sir John Eliot Gardiner include Bizet Carmen, Weber Le Freyschuetz, Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini, and Gluck Ophée at Covent Garden.

Uniting Zoë’s love of both concert and opera is her work with the unconducted baroque ensemble, Solomon’s Knot, “one of the UK’s most innovative and imaginative ensembles” (The Observer). With singers performing the music of Bach, Strozzi, Handel and others from memory, communicating and experiencing the music with the audience is at the heart of their ethos.

Zoë has recorded Bach, Blow, Lennox & Michael Berkeley, Charpentier and Telemann on the Delphian, Hyperion, Resonus Classics, Signum Classics, Soli Deo Gloria, Sony, Prospero and CPO labels.