He studied as a baritone on the postgraduate opera course at the Royal Academy of Music and was a member of the Glyndebourne chorus, where he was encouraged by the conductor Vladimir Jurowski among others to change to singing tenor.
[1] He won Glyndebourne's John Christie Award in 2011 and went on to study as a tenor at the National Opera Studio, London.
[2] From 2012-2014 he was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
He sang the role of Pang in Puccini's Turandot in 2014, Servant in Capriccio, Apparition of a Youth in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Commissary in Dialogues des Carmelites.
[4] He sang Grigori in Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House in March 2016 ("strikingly well sung" according to the Guardian),[5] and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with ENO in Summer 2016.