Winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Second Prize at the Handel Singing Competition of the 2019 London Handel Festival, as well as appointed a Samling Artist in 2018, the countertenor Patrick Terry was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, in London. His operatic engagements have included the roles of The Boy and Angel 1 (George Benjamin’s Written on Skin) with the Melos Sinfonia, Serafino (Gerald Barry’s The Intelligence Park) at Music Theatre Wales, Rosencrantz (Brett Dean’s Hamlet) at Oper Köln, Ruggiero (Alcina) at Opera North, Eustazio (Rinaldo) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Andronico (Tamerlano) at The Grange Festival. Additionally, he has sung Ruggiero and the title role in Teseo with La Nuova Musica. Between 2018 and 2020 Patrick Terry was a member of the Olivier Award nominated Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, travelling to Japan to appear in ‘Le Promesse’, a Gala Concert by Young Opera Singers of the World, at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and singing Arsace (Berenice), Joacim (Susanna), and Artemis (Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra).