In the 2022-23 season he made his role debuts as Rinuccio in Sir David McVicar’s new production of Il Trittico at Scottish Opera, his house debut at Opéra Comique as Dr Richardson in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves and his role debut as the Duke of Mantua Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park. He also made his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Tippett’s A Child of our Time conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Upcoming engagements include a return to the role of Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Holland Park and his debut at the Buxton International Festival as Don José La Tragédie de Carmen. To close the 2023/24 season he will make his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood as tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Hannu Lintu.

Recent engagements include his house and role debut as Prunier La Rondine for Opera North and a return to the role of Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress in a European tour with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Barbara Hannigan, his Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut as First Noble of Brabant Lohengrin, Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore for English National Opera, Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Scottish Opera, Gonzalve L’heure Espagnole Cassio Otello and Steuermann Der fliegende Holländer for Grange Park Opera.

Previous engagements include Fenton Falstaff, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Dr Richardson in the European premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves, Brighella Ariadne auf Naxos and Titorelli/Flogger/Berthold The Trial (Scottish Opera); Nanki-Poo The Mikado and Normanno Luccia di Lammermoor (English National Opera); Johnny Inkslinger Paul Bunyan (ENO at Wilton’s Music Hall); Prologue/Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw (ENO at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia (Operá national de Bordeaux and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées); Ernesto Don Pasquale, Lindoro L’italiana in Algeri and Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mananan International Festival); Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress (Klarafestival, Brussels, Aldeburgh Festival, and Ojai Festival, California); Brighella Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Holland Park); Fenton Falstaff (Cambridge Philharmonic Society); cover Lensky Eugene Onegin, cover Binet Vert-vert and cover Selimo Maemetto Secondo (Garsington Opera); and Spoletta Tosca (Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod with the Orchestra of WNO, Sir Bryn Terfel and Kristine Opolais). Roles while studying included Florindo Le donne curiose and Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia Lampwick The Adventures of Pinocchio (cover) (GSMD); title role Albert Herring and Lampwick (RNCM); and Johnny Inkslinger Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera’s Britten Centenary production).

Equally in demand on the concert platform, his recent engagements include Handel’s Messiah (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall); Mozart’s Requiem (Danish National Symphony Orchestra); Orbin in Elgar’s Caractacus (Opera North Orchestra, cond. Martyn Brabbins); Kenkin’s The Armed Man, Mass for Peace (royal Liverpool Philharmonic, cond. Sir Karl Jenkins); Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Dartington International Summer Festival, condu. Paul McCreesh); a concert with Sir Bryn Terfel at Bangor University and a Gala concert with Xi’an Symphony Orchestra in China.

His discography includes his most recent album Unveiled released on the Delphian label, Orbin in Elgar’s Caractacus for Hyperion (Opera North Orchestra, cond. Martyn Brabbins); songs by Huw Watkins and William Mathias on Taliesin’s Songbook (Tŷ Cerdd); an album of Welsh songs called Llwybrau’n Cân, and songs by Gareth Glyn on Caneuon Gareth Glyn (both for SAIN).

He is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2015 Stuart Burrows International Voice Award; the 2015 Kerry-Keane Prize and Audience Prize at the Les Azuriales Opera Young Artists Programme and has had considerable success at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. In 2010 he was the winner of the Urdd National Eisteddfod Bryn Terfel Scholarship. He was also a recipient of a 2017/18 Opera Awards Foundation Bursary and was one of the first recipients of a Study Award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation.

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