Rupert Peacock, Bass

Meet Rupert

Rupert Peacock began his singing career at age eight as a treble in the world-renowned Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. As a child he toured internationally, sang daily services, and three times performed the famous opening solo of “Once in Royal David’s City” on Christmas Eve for television and radio audiences of several hundred million. With King’s he can be heard on recordings of Mozart’s and Fauré’s requiems, choral music by Benjamin Britten, Christmas carols, and English hymn anthems.

Peacock studied at Charterhouse School in Surrey from 2014 to 2019 with a music scholarship before serving as a Deputy Lay Clerk of Durham Cathedral. In 2024 he graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Music, a certificate in vocal consort performance, and the Isidore and Helen Sacks Memorial Prize, which recognizes “exceptional contributions to the artistic life of the Music Department.” His senior thesis, based on research in the archives of Ely Cathedral, presents a newly discovered piece of sixteenth-century English choral music. At Princeton he sang in Decem, the University Glee Club and Chamber Choir, and the Aquinas Institute Schola Cantorum. From 2022 to 2024 he served as director of the Princeton Footnotes.

Recently Peacock has sung with Ensemble Altera, Oxford Voices, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys in New York City. He is pursuing a master’s degree in choral conducting at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.