Francis was born in 1974 and started singing as a Quirister at Winchester College. He was a music scholar at the same school before winning a Choral Scholarship to King's College, Cambridge where he studied with Roderick Earle and read for a music degree. He studied as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music with Stephen Roberts and then for several years with Susan McCulloch. He enjoyed having a permanent position with the Choir of Westminster Abbey before turning fully freelance earlier this year in January 2010. He currently studies with Robert Dean.

Francis has worked as a soloist with conductors such as Andrew Litton,Trevor Pinnock, Richard Hickox and Edward Gardner, and international solo work has taken him to Australia, Poland and the USA. He has taken part in masterclasses with Wolfgang Holzmaier, Sarah Walker, Philip Langridge and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.

2009 saw a busy year with several solo performances of Faure 'Requiem', Haydn 'Maria Theresa Mass' in the Cambridge Cantat 800 festival, Mozart 'Litaniae KV 109' and the Monteverdi Vespers. He sang in his first opera gala in Belvoir Castle performing arias such as 'Bella siccome un angelo', the 'Toreador's aria' and Mozart 'Non piu andrai' as well as popular duets from the Pearl Fishers. He took part in the BBC proms season with performances of Beethoven 'Fidelio', Haydn 'Creation' and Stravinsky 'Les Noces'.

 2009 featured many performances of contemporary music including Bertwhistle with the group Exuadi in the Aldeburgh festival, Xanakis 'Anastenaria', 'Wozzeck' in the Festival Hall and Paris, 'Graffiti' by Lindeburgh, and Schnittke 'The Yellow Room' with the LPO and Vladimir Yurowski. A christmas concert with Chapelle du Roi in St John's Smith Square saw four world premieres and in January this year he performed Henze 'Elogium musicum' at the Barbican with Knussen and the BBC Philharmonic. Francis worked with many vocal ensembles in 2009 including the Sixteen, the Clerk's Group, the Gabrieli Consort, Retrospect Ensemble, the Armonico Consort and Philharmonia Voices.

In 2010 he has recorded disks of Margaret Rizzi directed by Eamonn Dougan and 'Naked Byrd 2' with The Armonico Consort in a real tennis court! Forthcoming engagements include tours to Spain and the Edinburgh Festival with the Sixteen, Madrid with Capilla Cayrasco, Reykjavic Festival with Carmina, Portugal and Poland with Retrospect Ensemble, and Poland with the Gabrieli Consort. UK concerts include King's College Chapel with Philharmonia Voices, St John's Smith Square with Chapelle du Roi and the Aldeburgh Festival and QEH with Exaudi. Forthcoming recordings include disks of Mundy and Robert Hugill with Chapelle du Roi.