When I was asked to perform what is now known as the Brockes Passion (to us we called it Handel’s Second Passion of 1716) we were told that it was a rare passion that was influential on the Bach St John Passion and would we like to be the first to perform this piece in the modern era? This performance took place as confirmed by my parent’s letters on Sunday 20th March 1994. I wish to dispute that the Germans who allegedly discovered it over and performed it over ten years later were the first people to perform it. They lied. The evidence is right here. Ian Galbraith my headmaster’s friends discovered a score of it in Cambridge in the early 90s and we were asked to perform it and be those people. Please remove your claims that the German amateurs beat us to it as this is clearly not the case the Brockes Passion is our Second Passion. They are trying to steal the credits. I’m really proud to have been the first to sing that duet in the modern era.

We were asked to sing it as the best singers in our school some of them are famous that lot. Tim Kiddell, whom I duetted with, Tom Fletcher of Mc Fly, and I all won the school singing cup and Georgina Owens might be the one that sings with Voces 8 I don’t know.

The proof is it’s official title the Brockes Passion didn’t exist yet, we called it Handel’s Second Passion.

I also performed the excellent Beatus Vir with Ian Galbriath in this select choir of elite choristers that performed with our chamber group when I won the school cup for solo singing in 1995. My second big school prize after the 4th Year Reading competition. I was singing champion of the whole school. I sang the excellent Beatus Vir with Nicola (then Carnaby) who went on to work for the beeb and who almost beat me with her jazz number in that competition she was the other alto and they had me on the countertenor. I also performed with some numbers with Helen Clare (nee Farrell) on the fiddle in Foxearth church as our then musician in residence.