Biography

Born in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, Kynoch attended Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest Roman Catholic co-educational boarding independent school in the United Kingdom. It opened in 1802, as a boys' school, and is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey...

 school before reading music at Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

 where he was the organ scholar. He studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; his teachers have included Michael Dussek, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Ronan O'Hora and Vanessa Latarche.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival

Oxford Lieder Festival

The Oxford Lieder Festival, founded in 2001 by Sholto Kynoch, is the United Kingdom's largest art song festival. Oxford Lieder is now a registered charity and in addition to the annual festival which is usually in October, there are regular Song Evenings throughout the year, and a growing programme...

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Discography

• Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
  
   - the complete songs - volume 2: Mörike Lieder part 2 (with Sophie Daneman - soprano, Anna Grevelius - mezzo-soprano, James Gilchrist
  James Gilchrist
  James Gilchrist may refer to:*Jim Gilchrist, American activist and cofounder, along with Chris Simcox, of the The Minuteman Project Inc.*Jim Gilchrist , British*James W...
  
   - tenor, & Stephan Loges - baritone), Stone Records
  Stone Records
  Stone Records is a British, independent, classical record label, founded in 2008 by opera singer Mark Stone. It started by producing recordings of English song but has since widened its repertoire to include instrumental, choral and orchestral works....
  
   2011
• Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
  
   - the complete songs - volume 1: Mörike Lieder part 1 (with Sophie Daneman - soprano, Anna Grevelius - mezzo-soprano, James Gilchrist
  James Gilchrist
  James Gilchrist may refer to:*Jim Gilchrist, American activist and cofounder, along with Chris Simcox, of the The Minuteman Project Inc.*Jim Gilchrist , British*James W...
  
   - tenor, & Stephan Loges - baritone), Stone Records
  Stone Records
  Stone Records is a British, independent, classical record label, founded in 2008 by opera singer Mark Stone. It started by producing recordings of English song but has since widened its repertoire to include instrumental, choral and orchestral works....
  
   2011
• Fantasy (with Kaoru Yamada - violin), Stone Records
  Stone Records
  Stone Records is a British, independent, classical record label, founded in 2008 by opera singer Mark Stone. It started by producing recordings of English song but has since widened its repertoire to include instrumental, choral and orchestral works....
  
  2011