He gratefully acknowledges Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and her Foundation who provided him with significant mentoring and financial support. In the 2014/15 season, he joined the International Opera Studio in Zurich where he performed Speaker/Second Priest Die Zauberflöte, subsequently returned as a guest artist to reprise his role as Speaker and to perform Priest/Pan/He King Arthur. Named as a 2014 HSBC Laureate of Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he performed at the Festival the role of Bass in Trauernacht, a staged performance based on Bach’s sacred cantata, and the production has since travelled to various European venues.

Notable engagements elsewhere: Witness 3/Madman in premiere of Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (ROH debut), Angelotti with Sir Bryn Terfel (Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod); Craftsman in Elspeth Brooke’s The Commission and Barman/Hunter Gracchus/Policeman in Francisco Coll’s Café Kafka – a newly commissioned double-bill for ROH, Opera North and Aldeburgh Music. He also sang Cappadocian/Fifth Jew Salome (Bournemouth SO/Karabits). A keen recitalist, he has performed at the Aix-en-Provence and Oxford Lieder Festivals, Icelandic Opera in Reykjavik and L’Opéra de Lille.