While there, he studied singing with the baritone Clive Carey, and George Guest arranged for him to join the choir of St. John's College for a postgraduate year.
As a concert singer his repertoire included Bach (singing the voice of Jesus in the Passions), Handel, Elgar, Britten, Delius, Tippett and Vaughan Williams.
His operatic work included the vicar in Britten's Albert Herring for the English Opera Group, conducted by the composer and subsequently recorded by Decca (1964).
As part of the BBC's Bizet centenary broadcasts he took the title role in a radio production of Ivan IV in October 1975, conducted by Bryden Thomson.
[4] He appeared in 13 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall from 1962 until 1980; in 1972 his three concerts ranged from Gabrieli and Scarlatti to Sullivan and in 1975 he was in Moses und Aron under Boulez.