Peter Grant

Biography taken from Buxton concert "Sullivan and his Satellites", 2005

PETER GRANT bass-baritone was born and educated in Edinburgh. In 1994 he won a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he studied with Adrian Thompson. While at the Guildhall his studies were generously supported by the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship Trust. Peter won the 1998 Mary Garden International Song Competition in Aberdeen, the Sir Frederick George Painter Prize and the Wilfred Hyde Memorial Prize while at the Guildhall. Since leaving the Guildhall in 2000 Peter’s operatic repertoire has included Papageno (The Magic Flute), Father Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Marquis D’Obigny (La Traviata), Frank (Die Fledermaus) and Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for English Touring Opera, Don Alfonso (Cosi fan Tutte) Mary Garden Opera Aberdeen, Colline (La Bohème) for Clonter Opera, Ernesto (La Gazza Ladra) for Garsington Opera, Dick Deadeye (H.M.S. Pinafore) for Carl Rosa Opera Company and Leporello (Don Giovanni) for Opera Holland Park. Peter also has a busy oratorio career and recent engagements have included Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Faure’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Peter has also recently collaborated with the Scottish Tenor Elliot Goldie in performing Scottish Traditional Song to wide acclaim across Scotland.

Performing Credits:

Year Part Show
1994

The Pirate King

Pirates

 

 

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