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Sam Young
Primary Skill:
Baritone
Nationality:
British
Country:
United Kingdom
Links:
Languages (fluent):
English
Opera
Operetta/G&S
Chorus
Oratorio/Concerts
Choral
Film/TV
Discography
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
W.A. Mozart - Hai gia vinta la causa! / Vedrò mentr'io sospiro
Photo by Henry Harrison Headshots
Photo by Henry Harrison Headshots
Photo by Henry Harrison Headshots
Young Artist Award, Strand International Festival of Song. (2023)
Winner, Bath Spa University Classical Performance Award (2014)
Competitions
Winner, Chartered Surveyor’s Vocal Prize (2018)
Finalist, Dean & Chadlington Singing Competition (2015)
Sam is a British operatic baritone, currently based in Wiltshire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize, and previously graduated from Bath Spa University. In 2023, he was recipient of the Young Artist Award in conjunction with the Strand International Festival of Song.
In opera, Sam has previously been a member of the chorus with companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Tour and English National Opera. He will be making his debut with Longborough Festival Opera in 2024 as an Emerging Artist, in the role of Sergeant in their production of La bohème. Previous roles include the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera); Customs Officer cover in La bohème (Glyndebourne Tour); Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Heritage Opera); Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (St Bartholomew's Orchestra; Flat Pack Music); La Comte Ludorf in La Nonne Sanglante (Gothic Opera, UK premiere, Off-West End Awards winner, Best Opera production 2022); Papageno in The Magic Flute, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Mikado in The Mikado (Opera Anywhere, UK tour); Marcello cover in La bohème, Moralès in Carmen (Oxford Opera); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera); Sacristan in Tosca, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (North Wales Opera); Don Alonzo in Le Cid, Coryphée in Le Comte Ory, Herald in Macbeth (Dorset Opera Festival).
Sam has appeared as a soloist in concerts across the UK, Europe and China. In 2019, he performed as part of Downton Abbey Live with the Chamber Orchestra of London at Highclere Castle, and again with the City Lights Symphony Orchestra at KKL Luzern, Switzerland. Other solo concert and oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Messiah; Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Opera in the City Festival); Jesus in Bach’s St John’s Passion; Haman in Handel’s Esther. He has previously sung as a member of the Philharmonia Chorus and the Britten Sinfonia Voices.
Sam’s recording credits include the soundtrack for an episode of Urban Myths (Sky Arts), Bath Camerata’s The Passing of the Year (SOMM Recordings) and John Featherstone’s Te Deum.
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