The British tenor Samuel Stopford studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Kate Paterson, Janet Haney and Jonathan Papp.
There he received a Bicentenary Scholarship, as well as the Royal Academy’s ABRSM Scholarship and Her Royal Highness Princess Alice’s Prize for Exemplary Studentship. He is an alumnus of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, and has participated in masterclasses with singers including Brigitte Fassbaender, Freddie De Tommaso and Nicky Spence. At the beginning of the 2024/25 season he will join the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera. Samuel Stopford’s concert engagements have taken him throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. Recent highlights have included his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall singing Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca, three concerts with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra at the Shanghai Symphony Hall, several concerts with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and a performance to an audience of more than 12,000 at the Shenzhen Universiade Stadium in China, which reached a further 1.2 million people via livestream.
