Alexander Ashworth

Alex Ashworth is a concert and opera singer working across Europe and the United Kingdom. He began singing at Lichfield Cathedral, continued as a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

His recordings include Œdipus Rex, Stravinsky, with the London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi’s Vespers with both the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Monteverdi Choir, Bach’s B Minor Mass, St Matthew Passion and St John Passion for Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, and Bach’s Magnificat with Solomon’s Knot (“if one could bottle gravitas, this would be it” - Gramophone Magazine). On Deutsche Grammophon’s Stage Plus, Alex is “La Père du Famille” in Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ, and also sings Bach’s Actus Tragicus and Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien.

Recent performance highlights include performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass and Handel’s L’allegro, Il peneroso ed il Moderato across Europe and North America, including at New York’s Carnegie Hall. (“Ashworth was buttery in the Bach, commanding in the Handel” - New York Times). With Solomon’s Knot, he sang the role of Haman in Handel’s Esther at London’s Wigmore Hall (“sterling singing” - The Times), Monteverdi’s Vespers in Helsinki, and Bach’s Motets in Canada. Alex also performed at the Coronation of King Charles III.

Performances later in 2025 include Bach’s Trauerode and a reconstruction of his Köthener Trauermusik at the Bachfest in Leipzig, and at London’s Wigmore Hall. Alex also sings Fauré’s Requiem at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, Handel’s Messiah with the CBSO in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht in Poland, Austria, Italy and Luxembourg, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Zurich.

Alex is a Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He lives in East London with his wife and four children.