A distinguished tenor soloist, Gordon Pullin has sung all over the United Kingdom, in many European countries and in the USA. He has given a number of solo broadcasts on Radio Three (including a complete programme of Coleridge-Taylor, for which he also wrote the script), and on various local Radio Stations, mainly of English Song.

His interest in English Song began at school in Norwich, where his Maths master (a friend since schooldays of Gerald Moore) accompanied him singing Warlock and Purcell, as well as Schumann. When he was awarded a Choral Scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, his Norwich choirmaster gave him his own bound collection of Parry’s English Lyrics.

 Apart from his wide knowledge of the standard tenor repertoire in all fields, he has given first performances by modern composers of opera, oratorio, songs and song-cycles. Philip Wilby, Carol Barratt, John Jeffreys, Roy Teed and Tony Noakes are among composers who have written songs for him, several of which he has recorded. He has devised programmes around such poets as Blake, Blunden, Clare, Graves, Hardy, Housman, Shakespeare, Edward Thomas and Tennyson. He has also edited a book of settings of Hardy for Thames Publishing, a volume of settings of Hardy and Volume VII of ‘A Century of English Song’, both of which are available from the publisher William Elkin.

His concert schedule for 2008 takes him as usual all over the country. His latest CD is based on the poetry of Christina Rossetti and includes settings Holst, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Coleridge-Taylor. A CD based on the works of Charles Causley, is planned for later this year.
 

A Past Warden of the Performers and Composers Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, he is also an Honorary Member of the City Glee Club in London and a founder-member of the Wren Consort of Voices at St Paul's Cathedral. He sings as an occasional deputy with Wells Cathedral Choir.

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