CV / Resume

Education

•2007 M Opera graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the RSAMD.

•PGDip Opera graduate of their foundation course prior to commencing Opera School.

•An MA Hons English graduate from The University of Glasgow, working in London and Sydney as a Headhunter before returning to Glasgow and enrolling on the RSAMD opera course in 2005.

1. •As a child, was Head Chorister at Durham Cathedral, gained a full music scholarship to Durham School, and was one of the first singers from the North East of England to be accepted into the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.

Roles

•Tito – La Clemenza di Tito (ESO)

•Bill  – Flight by Jonathan Dove (RSAMD)

•Don Ottavio  – Don Giovanni (RSAMD)

•Youngest Son - The Vanishing Bridegroom(RSAMD, Dir. Lee Blakely)

•Fenton  – Die Lustigen Wieber von Windsor (Fife Opera)

•Bridegroom (U) Vanishing Bridegroom (RSAMD)

•Lehrbube  – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Edinburgh Festival, 2006)

•Don Curzio (U) – Le Nozze Di Figaro (RSAMD)

•Bardolfo (U)– Falstaff (RSAMD)

•Remendado (U) – Carmen (Haddo House)

•Rinuccio (U) – Gianni Schicchi (RSAMD)

•Baker  – Las Escondidas (OPERAting Theatre Co.)

1. •Nanki-Poo – The Mikado (Various)

Excerpts

•Don Basilio - Le Nozze Di Figaro

•Nadir - Les Pecheurs des Perles

•Rodolfo - La Boheme.

•Tom Rakewell – The Rake’s Progress

•Nemorino – L’Elisir d’Amore

•Male Chorus – The Rape of Lucretia

•Pang – Turandot

•Lenski – Eugene Onegin

Chorus

•Curlew River – Edinburgh Festival, 2005

•Fidelio – Usher Hall & Barbican – SCO & Sir Charles Mackerras

•Carmen – Durham Opera & Haddo House

•La Boheme, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia – Opera On a Shoestring.

•Le Roi La Dit, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Acis & Galatea, Dido & Aneas, Falstaff– RSAMD

Teachers:          

         Current:      Arthur Levy  (New York)  Nicolai Gedda (Switzerland)

         Previous:     Stephen Robertson, Peter Wilson, Pat MacMahon, Carole Wilson

Oratorio

•Handel Messiah – various, inc. major cathedrals

•Matthew Passion – Durham Cathedral

•Mozart Requiem- Durham Cathedral

•Mozart Vespers – BBC SSO

•Haydn The Creation

•Britten Rejoice In The Lamb – London Festival Orchestra

•Rossini Petite messe solennelle

•Haydn’s Creation Mass

•Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ

•Schubert Mass in G

1. • Schumann Requiem
   

2. • Stainer’s Crucifixion
   

•Verdi Requiem

Masterclasses

•Ian Storey

•David Wilson-Johnson

•Siegfried Jerusalem

1. • Janis Kelly
   

2. • Christophe Pregardien & Michael Gees, 2011 Edinburgh International Festival.
   

•Malcolm Martineau - Week’s song masterclass at Crear

1. •   Roger Vignoles  - Week’s Strauss & Purcell song masterclass at Schloss-Weinberg, Upper Austria
   

Conductors worked with include

•Tim Dean

•Tecwyn Evans

•James Grossmith

•David Jones

•David Robertson

•Gary Walker

•Michael Bawtree

Languages

•English (native)

•French (strong)

•Italian (good working knowledge)

•German (studying)

Awards

•John Ireland Song Prize, ‘06-07

•RSAMD Governor’s Recital Finalist

•Gavin Boyd Memorial Award presented by James McMillan on behalf of the Scottish Opera & the Friends of Scottish Opera

•Freedom of the Città Vecchia of Massa Marittima, Tuscany

•Selected for Opera Now’s “Who’s Hot?” Young Artists 2007

Physical Statistics

•Height: 6ft 4”/ 194 cm.

•Build: Athletic.

•Eyes: Dark brown

1. •Hair: Brown

Recitals

•“Il Golfo Dei Poeti” - Palazzo Spinola, Genoa 2012. Songs by Strauss, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Quilter, Ireland, Britten, Respighi, Parry & Tosti, and featuring the World Premiere of Lori Laitman’s ‘Dark Spring’ song cycle.

•Over 60 outreach concerts and workshops for the Edinburgh International Festival, 2012- present, with pianist Andrew Brown.

Opera roles currently under consideration for the present and the near future:

Tom Rakewell, Idomeneo, Tito, Pinkerton, Cavaradossi, Don Jose, Don Ottavio, Tamino, Male Chorus, Peter Grimes, MacDuff. Alfredo, Rudolfo, The Duke, Lenski, & several of the ‘Slavic roles’.