[1] Prendergast also began singing at an early age, beginning training in classical voice under Frances Marshall.
Whilst attending the National Youth Choir of Scotland from 1997 to 2002 Prendergast met and would go on to train with acclaimed singers and tutors, Stewart Kempster and tenor Peter Alexander Wilson.
An only child, during his late teens/early twenties Prendergast spent periods of time in Shanghai, China where his parents lived and worked for 9 years.
At the age of just 19, whilst still at Langside, Prendergast attended an open audition in London for the award-winning original production of Cameron Mackintosh/Royal Shakespeare Company's Les Misérables.
After being successfully picked out from thousands of auditionees, Prendergast was offered a role and became one of the youngest members at the time to join the cast.