Patrick Terry

Patrick Terry is a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Second Prize at the 2019 Handel Singing Competition and a Samling Artist, Patrick Terry was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin.

He earned his Bachelor’s of Music degree 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 Second 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. For Royal Academy Opera, he sang The Refugee Flight and Ruggiero Alcina.

Operatic engagements have included The Boy/Angel 1 Written On Skin with the Melos Sinfonia, Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Chicago Summer Opera, Rosencrantz in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne On Tour and the title role in Teseo with La Nuova Musica at the 2018 London Handel Festival. Concert highlights have included a Wigmore Hall appearance with Imogen Cooper.

This season, he travels to Japan to appear in Le Promesse (Gala Concert by Young Opera Singers Tomorrow of the World) at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and sings Arsace Berenice and Artemis in Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra. During 2018/2019, he will also return to the Wigmore Hall for Heroes and Villains, appear in Beyond Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Sir Charles Hubert Parry at the London Song Festival and sing Ruggiero Alcina with La Nuova Musica.