Described as “already a natural actor” with “a voice to reckon with” (Opera Magazine), British-Irish baritone Patrick is winner of Glyndebourne’s John Christie Award 2022, First Prize in the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award 2021, and Second Prize in the Pavarotti Prize 2021. He is currently a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne, where he sang The Notary and covered Dottore Malatesta in Don Pasquale during the 2022 Festival, and sang Sergente (La Bohème) and covered Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro) during the 2022 Tour. He graduated in the summer of 2022 from the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music, and previously studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Oxford. Patrick is an Opera Prelude Young Artist, a Countess of Munster Award Holder, a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Award Holder, and received the John Baker Award for Opera at the Academy. Other recent roles include Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Royal Academy Opera, and Don Parmenione (L’occasione fa il ladro) for British Youth Opera at Opera Holland Park. Patrick’s next engagement is covering Dancaïro for English National Opera’s Carmen. He is taught by Mark Wildman and Robert Dean.