Christopher Field commenced studying a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance before concentrating on singing and minor studies in harpsichord. He was the recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award for his Masters studies at the University of Melbourne. Currently a recipient of the prestigious Rae and Edith Bennett scholarship, he is a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studies with David Lowe and Iain Ledingham. He has been awarded many prizes, including The Pearis Rodger Scholarship for pianoforte performance, the Mabel Kent Scholarship for singing, the Dame Nellie Melba Prize, The Ormond Exhibition, The Mona McCaughey Scholarship and The Elise Widermann Scholarship all from Melbourne University, as well as The Harold McDonald Scholarship from the Early Music Society of Victoria. He was also awarded the prestigious Marten Bequest in 2001/2 which took him to Europe and the UK for further study. Operatic engagements have included the role of Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante with Stopera, and Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Co*Opera. He was engaged by Opera Australia covering the role of Eustazio in Handel’s Rinaldo, and has also sung the role of Waki-tsure in Crispin-Cresswell’s The Nameless Dead with Stopera. In 2005 he sung the countertenor role in John Adams’ El Nino at the Sydney Opera House and covered the role of Goffredo in Handel’s Rinaldo with Opera Australia. 2006 engagements included the countertenor role in Judith Weir’s ‘A Night at the Chinese Opera’ with the Royal Academy Opera (UK), and Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Opera Australia under Richard Hickox. He has performed the role of Maria Cleofas in Handel's La Resurrezione with The Australian Classical Players, and in 2002 he performed the alto solos in Handel’s Messiah with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and with Collegium Musicum in Perth. In 2003 he performed as alto soloist in St John’s Passion with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic and the Australian premiere of J.S. Bach’s St Mark’s Passion with the Sydney Philharmonia at The Sydney Opera House. 2004 has seen many performances in the United Kingdom, including Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for the London Handel Festival, Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Sweelinck Ensemble and the New Cambridge Singers, Handel’s Messiah with English Voices and the London Festival Orchestra, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and a solo recital for Musica Viva Australia. He was the countertenor soloist in the first modern performance of Caldara’s Christmas Oratorio at the Pamplona Festival with Ensemble Diapason. He also works regularly with ensembles such as Polyphony and English Voices and has recently been a step out soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with The Kings Consort. He will continue his work with The Kings Consort in Belgium this year, and makes his Wigmore Hall debut in November. He was the alto soloist with The American Theatre of Voices directed by Paul Hillier in Estonia and Latvia in works of Arvo Part’s Stabat Mater for the 70th birthday celebrations of the composer, and he has recently given the first modern performance of the ‘De Torrente’ from the recently discovered Dixit Dominus of Vivaldi. He appears as countertenor soloist on a number of recordings: Zelenka’s Litanies of St Francis Xavier and Tobias Hume’s A Souldier’s Resolution (Move Records). He also features as soloist on DVD and CD for ABC Classics of Handel’s Messiah. Other releases include ‘Handel Cantatas’ with Accademia Arcadia (Tall Poppies), and The Food of Love with Salut! Baroque (Australia). A further solo disc, The Noble Noyse of Musicke with the Holland-based ensemble The Royal Winds was released in 2006. He has also recently recorded a disc on Hyperion of the music of Eric Whitacre with Polyphony (UK). Future releases include a solo CD with Accademia Arcadia featuring cantatas of Antonio Caldara.