James Bowman wife: Was James Bowman married?

English countertenor, James Bowman did not have any known wife. He also did not have any known children. He died on Monday, March 27, 2023. He was 81 years old.

He was at the forefront of the explosion of interest in Early Music and Baroque period practice in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. While he was still in school, Bowman auditioned for Benjamin Britten’s English Opera Group and was cast as Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where he composed a part with Alfred Deller’s voice in mind. He went on to make the role his own.

Bowman began his musical life as a boy chorister at Ely Cathedral and later went on to sing countertenor at Oxford’s New College and Christ Church Choirs.

Soprano and Classic FM presenter, Catherine Bott paid tribute after his death.

“His singing was full-bodied, open-hearted and virile, exquisitely sensitive to both words and music and supported by an unobtrusive technique that made anything seem natural and easy, from an end run of notes in a Bach aria to the cheeky wordplay in a Purcell duet,” she wrote.

“James was a joy to sing with because along with the artistry and professionalism, there was always fun. His occasional mischievous onstage whispers between numbers could cause dangerous amounts of ill-suppressed laughter. He was also a loyal and thoughtful friend: he loved model railways, Coronation Street, gossiping on the phone. One of the highlights of my singing career was the duo recital programme we devised together, when we sang at my old school it was a pleasure to show him the music room where I had first heard his voice on record – a moment that was to influence my whole career,” she added.