Francis Gush is an English countertenor and graduate of the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Lawrence Zazzo, Dinah Harris, and Caroline Dowdle.
Francis has recently become a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, having been cast as the solo singer in a production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, at the Swan Theatre in Stratford.

Previous operatic engagements include the role of Porfiri in the premiere of Benjamin Leuke’s Crime and Punishment directed by Bill Bankes-Jones (Royal College of Music, International Opera School), Oberon / Britten- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RCM), David / Handel- Saul (RCM), Ottone / Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea (Coronation Opera).

Concert engagements have included St John Passion / Bach (Pembroke College, Cambridge), Messiah / Handel (London Three Choirs), Abraham and Isaac / Britten (Kensington Concert Series).

Francis is an also an experienced choral and ensemble singer, having completed a lay-clerkship at Magdalen College in Oxford, being a former member of Genesis Sixteen, and regularly deputising at St Paul’s Cathedral, and the Brompton Oratory. Future engagements include a disk recording of Gluck’s Orfeo with La Nuova Musica, and an English Coronation project with the Gabrieli Consort.