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The American counter-tenor, Patrick Terry, earned his Bachelor’s of Music from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, where he studied with Adriana Zabala, and graduated from London’s Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Caitlin Hulcup and Michael Chance on the Opera Course with generous support from the Josephine Baker Trust and the John J Adams Scholarship, in Summer 2018. Selected for the 2018 Leeds Lieder Young Artists Festival, further competition success has included 2nd Prize at the 2019 Handel Singing Competition, 2nd Prize at the 2015 Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Competition, winning the 2014 Maureen Lehane Vocal Award and winning the 2017 Richard Lewis / Jean Shanks Award. He is Winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, 2nd Prize at the 2019 Handel Singing Competition and a Samling Artist.
Whilst a member of the Olivier Award nominated Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Patrick Terry travelled to Japan to appear in Le Promesse (Gala Concert by Young Opera Singers Tomorrow of the World) at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and sang Arsace Berenice and Artemis in Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra at the Linbury Theatre. He also sang the title role in Act 3 of Orfeo ed Euridice for the 2019 Jette Parker Young Artist Summer performance on the main stage and gave a recital in The Crush Room.
Other operatic engagements have included Serafino in The Intelligence Park for Music Theatre Wales in association with The Royal Opera House, The Boy / Angel 1 in Written On Skin with the Melos Sinfonia, Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Chicago Summer Opera, Rosencrantz in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne On Tour and Oper Köln, Ruggiero in George Frideric Handel's Alcina and the title role in Teseo with La Nuova Musica and Eustazio in Rinaldo for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Concert highlights have included J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) and G.F. Handel's The Choice of Hercules with the London Handel Orchestra, a Wigmore Hall appearance with Imogen Cooper's Beyond Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Sir Charles Hubert Parry at the London Song Festival, whilst his broadcasts include In Tune for BBC Radio 3.
Current engagements include rescheduled performances as Ruggiero in G.F. Handel's Alcina with Opera North, a recording as Orgando in Amadigi di Gaula with the Early Opera Company, Andronico in Tamerlano for The Grange Festival and the world première of Matt Rogers’ Honest Skin for a Crush Room Recital at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Engagements during 2022-2023 currently include the title role in Rinaldo for his debut at Minnesota Opera. He currently lives in London, England. |
