BIOGRAPHY
Samuel studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having studied at the University of Warwick and Universitat der Humboldt in Berlin.
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At home in the bass and baritone repertoire, Samuel's credits include: Escamillo (Carmen) and Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) for Arcadian Opera; Leporello for Hurn Court Opera; Colline (La Boheme) with Oxford Opera Company, Father (Hansel and Gretel) and Prince Yamadori (Madame Butterfly) at the Iford Arts Festival, Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) for Opera Warwick , Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) for Midland Opera, Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro) for the International Bel Canto Academy, Pluton (Hippolyte et Aricie) for Ensemble OrQuesta and Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) for L'Offerta Musicale di Venezia.
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Concert highlights include Delalande's De Profundis, Gilles' Messe des Morts, Handel's Messiah, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Creation, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light: A Requiem. Samuel also regularly performs with the Philharmonia Chorus in various venues around Europe.
A keen advocate of new music, Samuel has premiered several roles for operas written by Laurence Panter, Ed Lambert and Mark Springer. Most recently he played the title role of The Stone God by Nicholas Smith at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Samuel collated a concert of newly commissioned works about mental health called 'Music on the Mind' at the Milton Court Concert Hall.
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Away from performance, Samuel is a keen librettist and has written adapted English translations of Don Giovanni and Hansel and Gretel for Opera Warwick and Opera Loki. He has collaborated with partner Fleur de Bray on song repertoire and collaborates with composers on new opera works. Samuel is also the Head of Music and Drama at Ripley Court School, where he has the luxury of spending time with the most creative children in Surrey!