Ronan Collett baritone

Fellowship Winner 2006

Ronan Collett read music at Pembroke College, Cambridge where as an undergraduate he sang as a baritone choral scholar with St. John's College Choir. He subsequently studied with Noelle Barker and Iain Ledingham as a postgraduate on the Royal Academy of Music's opera programme, where he received the Royal Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal and was awarded a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and a Sybill Tutton award, administered by the MBF. Ronan Collett has also received a Scholarship from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. He has given recitals at the Mozart in the Marches, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Verbier Festivals, in Pontevedra and Santiago in Spain and at Wigmore Hall, where he was the first musician to be appointed Young Artist. He made his Edinburgh Festival debut in 2004 in Der Freischütz conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras and made his Australian debut the same year, singing Britten's War Requiem at the Perth International Festival and at the Sydney Opera House.  He recently made his role debut as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, which he toured with the Classical Opera Company and his English National Opera debut, as Morales in Carmen. In 2006, Ronan was awarded the Priz Thierry Mermod at the Verbier Festival Academy. He also joined the BBC's New Generation Artists Scheme. Future engagements include Beethoven's Mass in C with the Manchester Camerata, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Wigmore Hall and Beaune Festival with the Gabrieli Consort and Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte at the Berlin Philharmonie with Mitsuko Uchida.

Photograph taken by Edward Webb