Christian is a singer, conductor and musicologist based in London.

As an experienced and accomplished ensemble singer, Christian is Senior Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace and the regular bass in the Choir of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. He also sings with London Voices, Chamber Choir Ireland, Sourcework, La Serenissima, with the choirs of Chichester and Guildford Cathedrals, and with the professional church choirs of St Anne’s, Kew; All Saints, Margaret Street, and St Patrick’s, Soho Square, among many others. 

As a soloist, Christian has recently given performances as the baritone in Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (Sheen Gate Choir/Richmond Orchestra [2025]; Peterborough Cathedral Choir [2024]) along with recitals of songs by De Falla with guitarist Mark Morris and by Zemlinsky with pianist Michael Cayton. Solo engagements have also included Haydn Nelson Mass and Charpentier Te Deum (All Saints’ Festival Choir & Orchestra; Sandbach Voices), Monteverdi Vespers (Collegium Musicum of London / The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble), Mozart Great Mass in C minor (Brighton College Choral Society), Bach St Matthew Passion (Oxford Spezzati Soloists), Bach cantata BWV 82: Ich habe genug, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Barber: Hermit Songs (Hampton Court Palace) and Fauré Requiem (The Teddingtones). He studies singing with Robert Rice.

In 2025, Christian participated as a masterclass delegate to the Cork International Festival Choral Conducting Course, conducting Chamber Choir Ireland. He regularly conducts the professional English Consort of Voices in engagements in the UK, notably in an ongoing relationship of more than ten years with Holy Innocents Church, Paddenswick Road  in Hammersmith. He is also pleased recently to have conducted Capital Chorus, Egham Choral, Eltham Choral Society, King's College London Staff Choir, Musarc, Richmond Opera, Shoreham Oratorio Choir, and the West London Chamber Choir.

As a musicologist, Dr Christian Goursaud [BMus (Hons), MMus, PGCert, PhD, AFHEA] specialises in late medieval and renaissance music and manuscript studies, and has a particular interest and ongoing practice in performing from mensural notation. Since 2022 he has regularly supervised undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge (Caius, Christ’s, Corpus, Homerton, Hughes Hall, Magdalene) in music and culture from the beginning of plainchant to 1700. He is Visiting Research Fellow in Early Music Theory at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he previously worked full-time as Research Fellow as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music: An Expert System Based on the Theory of Johannes Tinctoris’ (2017-2022).

Christian was awarded his PhD in 2016 for a study of the presentation manuscript sources of Johannes Tinctoris’s music theory, having won a prestigious AHRC-funded studentship attached to the research project ‘The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition’, supervised by Emeritus Professor Ronald Woodley and Dr Jeffrey J. Dean. He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice (PGCert) from Birmingham City University, an MMus with distinction in Historical Musicology and a first-class BMus from King's College London. He received specialist training in palaeography, codicology, and diplomatic within the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at University College London, under Professor David D'Avray and Dr Marigold Norbye.

Telephone: 07796 033585

Email: enquiries@christiangoursaud.co.uk