JAMES BOTCHER

London-based tenor James Botcher combines ensemble and consort singing with a blossoming solo career. He has performed and recorded with ensembles across Europe, including The BBC Singers, Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, and I Fagiolini, and is a founding member of The Lyons Mouth Consort. 

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Increasingly in demand as a concert soloist, James is gaining a reputation for evangelising in Bach St Matthew and St John Passions, and performing increasingly higher solos including Rossini Stabat Mater and Orff Carmina Burana. He can also be found performing around the world in the Grammy award-winning contemporary a cappella group The Swingle Singers. 

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The recent 2026 Easter season has seen James perform Dying Swan in Orff Carmina Burana, and tenor solo in Mendelssohn Elijah and Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle. As an ensemble singer, he also appeared in the chorus in both the Bach St Matthew and St John Passions with the BBC Singers and Polyphony. James has just returned to the UK from a tour of Central America with The Swingle Singers

James read music at The University of York, under the supervision of Robert Hollingworth and taught by Susan Young. During his postgraduate study he also held a choral scholarship in the York Minster. 

When James isn't singing he enjoys amateur photography, learns useless facts, and moonlights as a beatboxer. James also owns two small dogs and a very large cat. Ask him about dinosaurs.