Baritone Robert Garland is studying on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Audrey Hyland where he also completed his Master of Arts. He is also a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he studied with Janet Price. During his time at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Robert was a Ley Clerk at Llandaff Cathedral and also sang with Classical Brit Award Winning Choir ‘Only Men Aloud!’. Since moving to London Robert’s operatic roles include Bartolo in the Royal Academy of Music’s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figao, Talbot in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Belcore in Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore. He has also covered the role of Papageno for Nevill Holt’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflote. He has performed the roles of Demitrius from Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream and Nardo from Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera for the Royal Academy of Music’s Postgraduate Opera Scenes. Recent professional chorus work has included singing for Opera Holland Park’s Iris (Mascagani) and Grange Park Opera’s Peter Grimes (Britten), Pikovaya dama (Tchaikovsky), La Boheme (Puccini) and Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens). Robert has also worked with Northern Ireland Opera for Macbeth (Verdi) and Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner). He has sung in numerous oratorio performances most notably including; Brahms’s Requiem, Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Vaughan-Williams’s Five Mystical Songs. He is sponsored by the Josephine Baker Trust and his studies are generously supported by the Winship Foundation, the Split Infinitive Trust and the Mario Lanza Foundation.