Christopher Kent & Gamal Khamis
Biography Christopher Kent & Gamal Khamis
Christopher Kent
career as an actor has encompassed a wide range of classic and contemporary roles on stage, screen and radio. He now specialises in voice-over work for national and international clients and is one of the UK’s busiest voice talents, available daily via ISDN, Source Connect and phone patch/FTP from his broadcast-quality London studio. His warm, natural and distinctive voice is familiar to audiences around the world and his fluency across a range of genres from medical narration to Shakespeare have made him an automatic choice for many leading clients including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Discovery and Nat Geo (documentaries & promos), Frozen 2, Artemis Fowl, The King's Speech (trailers) and Audi, Volvo, AEG & Vodafone (advertising)
Gamal Khamis
has performed at Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sage Gateshead, as well as all over Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. He made his debut at the Wigmore Hall at the age of ten, and he gained a degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London before completing his formal education at the Royal College of Music, where he now works with the Vocal Faculty and the Junior Department. He has won major prizes at the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and the Ferrier Awards, and he has premiered works by many of Britain’s leading composers including Eleanor Alberga, Daniel Kidane, Amy Bryce, Shiva Feshareki and George Stevenson. He has performed concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, R. Schumann, Grieg, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Finzi with orchestras all over the UK, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 In Tune, where he has performed alongside Sol Gabetta, Vilde Frang and Erwin Schrott.
Gamal is a Samling Artist, a member of the award-winning Lipatti Piano Quartet, and a coach and pianist on DEBUT’s Horizon Project. He is on the Artistic Committee of the Park Lane Group, and he is an alumnus of the Banff Centre in Canada and the Concordia Foundation in London. Gamal performs regularly at both the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, USA, and the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival in London. His recording of works by Richard Strauss alongside the actor Christopher Kent is released by SOMM Recordings in 2022, with support from the Richard Strauss Society. Gamal would like to thank The Carne Trust, The Finzi Trust and Help Musicians UK for their recent support of his career.
