Acclaimed British Tenor

Guy Cutting is internationally recognised for his nuanced interpretations of Bach and the Baroque repertoire. Guy is a regular soloist with a number of the world’s foremost period ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Collegium Vocale Gent, and the Netherlands Bach Society, collaborating with renowned conductors including Philippe Herreweghe, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and Masaaki Suzuki. He also performs with top-level modern orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra. He was the inaugural recipient of the American Bach Soloists’ Jeffrey Thomas Award and a Rising Star of the Enlightenment.

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Discography

BACH: HERZ UND MUND UND TAT UND LEBEN

Cantatas BWV 6, 99 & 147 Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe

STRAVINSKY: LATE WORKS

Cappella Amsterdam / Noord Nederlands Orkest / Daniel Reuss

CLÉRAMBAULT: TE DEUM

A Nocte Temporis / Reinoud van Mechelen

JACKSON: THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Choir of Merton College, Oxford / Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia / Benjamin Nicholas

…Guy Cutting excels in the central setting of In Memoriam Dylan Thomas – ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’…

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works, Noord Nederlands Orkest / Daniel Reuss

BBC Music Magazine, 29 January 2026

The intervention of tenor Guy Cutting provides a welcome contrast: his voice, light but incisive, emerges from the choral fabric naturally and grants a touch of human warmth to pieces that could fall into abstraction.

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works, Noord Nederlands Orkest / Daniel Reuss

Sonograma, 29 December 2025

Philippe Herreweghe: ‘Earlier today I already heard the recital from the brilliant tenor Guy Cutting, with British music I hardly know …Guy Cutting is for me the new Christoph Prégardien.’

Recital – Crete Senesi Festival George Ireland, piano

NRC, The Netherlands, 1 August 2024

Guy Cutting, a first-class Evangelist

JS Bach, Christmas Oratorio with OAE & Masaaki Suzuki

The Observer, 9 December 2023

Tenor Guy Cutting’s aria ‘Erholet euch, betrübte Sinnen’ is a prize winner, sung with gravitas but agility…

Bach cantatas with Masaaki Suzuki & The Monteverdi Choir

Limelight Arts, London, June 2025

The British tenor Guy Cutting has got a focused, homogeneous and bewitching way of singing.

Monteverdi – Vespers Collegium Vocale Gent at La Scala

Connession all’Opera, 11 March 2025

Briton Guy Cutting has made a name for himself as a baroque specialist, but now also has Mozart and contemporary works in his repertoire. The bright, balanced, warm-timbered tenor that he has at his disposal gives hope for further expansion of his repertory.

Bach – Cantatas 8, 138, 75 Collegium Vocale Gent

Dreh Punkt Kultur, 28 January 2025

… with Guy Cutting’s beguiling and attentive singing of the final aria. It caps another exceptional Bach recording from an ensemble and director who just keep giving.

JS Bach – Cantatas BWV6, 99 & 147 Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe

Gramophone, 5 October 2023

Cutting is an evangelist whose beautiful voice, wonderful phrasing and perfect diction are reminiscent of the great Bach interpreters Ernst Haefliger, Peter Schreier and Daniel Behle. His noble tenor was a blessing…

Bach – Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachtsoratorium) BWV248

Tageblatt Luxembourg, 21 December 2023

British tenor Guy Cutting was a Rising Star of the Enlightenment, his star has now well and truly risen. He is now a sought-after interpreter of Bach, and his experience shone through in this intelligent performance.