| Biography | Ronald Samm was born in Port of Spain, the younger son of two headteachers. Early musical training began at St Marys College where he was a regular prizewinner in the island-wide biennial Music Festival. He studied voice and piano with Noelle Barker and Ian Kennedy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and won a scholarship from the Peter Moores/Lord Pitt Foundation to pursue postgraduate study with Nicholas Powell at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Opera appearances have included Canio/I Pagliacci; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung (Act 3); Iro (Irus)/Il ritorno dUlisse in patria; Tamino/Die Zauberflöte; Don Jose/Carmen; Drum-Major/Wozzeck; the title role in Brittens The Prodigal Son; Jake/Porgy and Bess; Otello/Otello; Sigmund/Die Walküre and Florestan in the multi award winning production of Fidelio, for Birmingham Opera Company, directed by Graham Vick.
Ronald Samms oratorio repertoire includes Handels Messiah; Bachs Magnificat and St. John Passion; Mendelssohns Elijah; Beethovens Mass in C; Mozart's Requiem; Verdi Requiem; Stainers Crucifixion and Lazarus in staged performances of John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary for Theater Bonn. He appeared as The Preacher in Bernsteins Mass at the 2012 BBC Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. |