Joseph Hancock is a British Tenor and prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
With a growing reputation for his interpretation of Baroque repertoire, Oratorio and Song, Joseph graduated with Distinction from the Masters in Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 2026, where he studied with Mark Wildman and Janet Haney. At the Royal Academy of Music, he won the Flora Nielsen Prize, was Highly Commended in the Michael Head Prize, and won the Nancy Nuttall Prize for Early Music with The Duke’s Consort, of which he is a founding member and Artistic Advisor.
He began singing as a chorister in the Choir of New College, Oxford, under the direction of Edward Higginbottom. He then went on to study Music at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), where he sang as a Choral Scholar and later Lay Clerk in the Choir of St John's College, directed by Andrew Nethsingha and Christopher Gray. In 2022 he was a member of the Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme at Pembroke College, receiving tuition from Joseph Middleton, and in recent years has enjoyed masterclasses and tuition with Sir Thomas Allen, Ailish Tynan, Nick Mulroy, and Lucy Crowe.
Whilst at Cambridge, he won the Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for students at the University, and was also awarded the Larmor Award, Whytehead Scholarship, Wright Prize, and Hughes Year Prize for outstanding achievement.
Recent solo concert highlights include the Evangelist in Bach’s ‘St John Passion’ and ‘Christmas Oratorio’, Handel’s ‘Messiah’, Schumann’s ‘Dichterliebe’, San Giovanni in Handel’s ‘La Resurrezione’. Recent operatic roles include Remendado (Carmen, G. Bizet) for Royal Academy Opera, The Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia, B. Britten), Nettuno & Pastore (La Liberazione di Ruggiero, F. Caccini), Prince Charming (Cendrillon, P. Viardot), and Opera Scenes as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, W.A. Mozart) and Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, B. Britten) at the Royal Academy of Music, as well a workshop performance of a scene from a new opera written by Oliver Rudland.
Joseph is also an experienced ensemble singer, and has performed with ensembles including Voces8 and the Voces8 Scholars Ensemble, APOLLO5, Polyphony, Sinfonia of London Chorus, ORA Singers, Armonico Consort, Wishful Singing, and Continuum Choir. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Choral Scholars with the Oxford Bach Soloists, directed by Tom Hammond-Davies. He is one of the quartet of professional singers at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square.
Joseph is also involved in education work, with experience delivering singing workshops in schools across the country with the Voces8 Foundation as a member of their Education Team and working with the Education Programme of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has also worked as a Volunteer with the London branch of The Choir with No Name, an organisation of Choirs involving people affected by homelessness.
Joseph is grateful for the support of Help Musicians, the St John’s College Choir Association, and the Josephine Baker Trust. He is represented by SEArtists.