Alumnus Patrick Terry Selected for Jette Parker Young Artists Programme
Patrick Terry (BM, 2013, voice, student of Adriana Zabala), countertenor, has been selected for the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at Royal Opera House in London. Terry is one of five singers who will join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September 2018. He was selected from more than 440 applicants from 59 countries.
The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme supports the artistic development of young professional singers, conductors, directors and repetiteurs. The Young Artists are an international group of outstanding professionals at the start of their careers who have undertaken formal training and have already worked with professional companies. They are not students, but contracted, salaried employees of the Royal Opera House, who work here full-time over two years. Learn more about the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.
Terry studied at the University of Minnesota School of Music with Adriana Zabala and at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Chance and Caitlin Hulcup, supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship and the Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award. Competition successes include the second place in the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Competition and winning the Maureen Lehane Vocal Award, the Loveday Song Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition, the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award and being a finalist in the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Competition with Southbank Sinfonia. Opera appearances include Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream) with the Chicago Summer Opera, Ottone (L'incoronazione di Poppea) and Ruggiero (Alcina) and Royal Academy Opera, Boy/Angel 1 (Written on Skin) with Melos Sinfonia and covering Guildenstern (Hamlet) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne on tour. Plans include The Refugee (Flight) for Royal Academy Opera, the title role of Teseo with La Nuova Musica at the London Handel Festival and covering Nireno (Giulio Cesare) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Passionate about engaging new audiences, Terry was a Fellow with the Royal Academy of Music's Open Academy and has participated in innovative programs with the Shadow Opera, the Voicings Collective and Ensemble x.y.
