Charles Daniels was born in Salisbury. He is best known as for his interpretation of Baroque music, notably Bach, Purcell and Monteverdi. He was born in Salisbury, UK and studied at King’s College Cambridge and under Edward Brooks at the Royal College of Music.

He has made nearly a hundred recordings as a soloist including the recent Trauer Music with Andrew Parrott, Handel’s Messiah and Monteverdi Vespers with the Gabrieli Consort for Deutsche Grammophon, Dowland songs for EMI, the Beggars Opera for Hyperion, Handel’s Alexander Balus with the King’s Consort, Tenorlied by Sen? with Fretwork, Bach’s Messe in H-Moll  with De Nederlandse Bach-Vereniging, Airs de Cour with Catherine King and Jacob Heringman, Rubbra’s Amoretti with the Maggini Quartet, and many discs of Bach cantatas and Purcell.

He is a very busy concert artist: performances have included the world première of 'Songs of the Sky', the song cycle by John Tavener, with oboist Nicholas Daniel and pianist Julius Drake, a ?fteen concert tour of Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Netherlands Bach Society, Handel’s Joshua (London Handel Festival, broadcast by BBC Radio 3), G P Colonna’s ‘La Caduta di Gierusalemme’ with Manfred Cordes and Weserrenaissance; many performances of the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John and St Matthew Passion; Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius (Warsaw, Winchester, Leicester), Luigi Nono’s Canti di Vita e Amore (Edinburgh Festival), Handel Solomon (Halle and Göttingen Händel- Festspielen); Britten’s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings (St.Gallen); Britten War Requiem (Salisbury, Canterbury), Finzi’s Dies Natalis (Brinkburn Festival), Handel’s Messiah (Vienna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt); Purcell’s King Arthur in Toronto with Tafelmusik and the Première of Wojciech Kilar’s Missa Pro Pace with the Warsaw Philharmonic, in Warsaw and Rome for the late Pope John Paul II .

His completion of Purcell’s un?nished Ode Arise my Muse was broadcast on Radio Canada in the 2009 Montreal Baroque Festival and has recently reconstructed the missing parts of Gesualdo’s six-voice Sacrae Cantiones.
Current plans include recording Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Rudolf Lutz, recording Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Andrew Parrott and concerts ranging from music for King Henry VIII through performances of Cavalli’s Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne to Elgar’s Gerontius in Cardiff. He is delighted to be returning to Montréal for this concert with Les Boréades.