Andrew
Sritheran is from New Zealand, where he did his undergraduate study. He
has also studied in California with Marilyn Horne; in New York at the
Eastman School and as a postgraduate at the Royal Northern College of
Music in Manchester, where he studied with Patrick McGuigan. He was awarded
the prize for the ‘Most promising young singer’ at the Rossini
in Wildbad festival in Germany and is the winner of the 2002 UK National
Mozart singing competition and also their Verdi/Wagner prize. In 2003
he won first prize in the National Wagner Society Prize for Male Singers
and also won the prize for the most promising tenor. He was also a finalist
in this year’s Bayreuth Bursary competition and the Harwood Competition
at the RNCM. In March he sang his first Verdi Requiem at Durham
Cathedral, and in April his first Pollione in Norma for Preston
Opera; in August he will make his professional debut as Don Jose for Opera
Garden in Carmen at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
He has been studying at the National Opera Studio since September 2003.
Since October 2000 Andrew has been a major scholar of the Peter Moores
Foundation.
