The Prince Consort is a versatile, award-winning voice and piano collective. Directed by pianist Alisdair Hogarth, the group brings together the leading young singers of its generation to perform the very finest piano-accompanied song. Its founding members - renowned baritone Jacques Imbrailo, mezzo Jennifer Johnston, soprano Anna Leese, countertenor Tim Mead and tenor Andrew Staples - feature regularly in the group's recitals alongside other exceptional voices. Now in its twelfth year, The Prince Consort champions classic repertoire whilst proudly commissioning new works by composers including Ned Rorem, Stephen Hough and Cheryl Frances-Hoad. 

Other singers who perform regularly as part of the group include Nicholas Mulroy, Anna Huntley, Rowan Hellier, Philip Smith and Nicky Spence.

It was whilst studying at the Royal College of Music in London, that its founding members became friends and began to perform together as an ensemble, making their debut at the Purcell Room in 2004. Since then, they have garnered outstanding reviews for their work, appearing regularly at the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, the Aldeburgh Britten Weekend, Oxford Lieder, Cheltenham, Bath and Brighton Festivals.

They have recorded two very successful albums for LINN Records: in 2010, On an Echoing Road (songs by Ned Rorem) was Gramophone Editor’s Choice and won an International Record Review Outstanding Award. In the same year, the group was named in The Observer’s Best Classical Music of the Year. Released in 2012, their second album Other Love Songs features both sets of Brahms’ Liebeslieder alongside a new commission by pianist and composer Stephen Hough; Alisdair Hogarth is joined at the piano by both Philip Fowke and Stephen Hough for this disc.

Performances have included – at the Wigmore Hall – Brahms’s Liebeslieder with Graham Johnson, world premieres of works by Stephen Hough and Ned Rorem, a three-concert American series, and a recital of Schumann with Malcolm Martineau broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 in late 2014. They have given the European premiere of Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Brahms’s Liebeslieder at the Cheltenham Festival, an American Song residency and recital at the Aldeburgh Festival and featured on BBC Radio 3 programmes In Tune and The Choir. They also made a very successful debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, broadcast live on Netherlands 4. The group has recently been appointed Associate Artists of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s vocal department.