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. Ronan has also received a Scholarship from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. At the Royal Academy of Music he sang Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Nardo in La Finta Giardiniera and Chao Lin in Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera. He recently made his role debut as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, which he toured with the Classical Opera Company and made his ENO debut as Morales in Carmen. Ronan 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 recently made his Australian debut, singing Britten’s War Requiem at the Perth International Festival and at the Sydney Opera House. Ronan recently sang Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Wigmore Hall and at the Beaune Festival with the Gabrieli Consort and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Manchester Camerata. In 2006, Ronan was awarded the Priz Thierry Mermod at the Verbier Festival and joined the BBC’s New Generation Artists Scheme. Future engagements include Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte at the Berlin Philharmonie with Mitsuko Uchida and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.

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