Christopher Bowen was born in New Zealand and studied singing and medicine at Otago University. He was a member of the New Zealand Youth Choir from 1994 to 1999.

In 2003 he moved to London and, while learning from Ian Partridge, started his professional career. Since then his versatile, high tenor voice has lent itself to recital, opera, oratorio and ensemble singing. Christopher has performed a broad array of music from medieval to modern. He is a member of the BBC Singers, with whom he performs and records across the UK and abroad, and is in demand as a tenor soloist with choral societies throughout the UK, Europe and further afield.