Gerard Collett studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has recently completed his studies at the National Opera Studio.

 

He received the Jean Meikle Prize for a Duo at the Wigmore International Song Competition and is the inaugural winner of the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award, launched by the Southbank Sinfonia in collaboration with the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Gerard Collett

As the award winner, he was mentored by Sir Thomas Allen in preparation for a recital of orchestral song at the Cadogan Hall. Prizes at the Royal Academy included the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, the Major van Someren Godfery prize for English Song, and the Richard Lewis/ Jean Shanks Award. He received a Sybil Tutton Award, and a Maidment Scholarship, both administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

 

Throughout his postgraduate training he was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Trust. He won a Wingate Scholarship administered by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and is an Independent Opera Scholar. He is a Susan Chilcott Scholar and a Samling Foundation Scholar, participating in masterclasses and performing with Angelika Kirschlager and Malcolm Martineau in the Sage Gateshead.

 

He has participated in masterclasses given by Nathan Gunn at the Ravinia Festival, as a member of the Steans Institute in Chicago, with Thomas Quasthoff at the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, with Leo Nucci at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia di Bel Canto in Italy, and with Roger Vignoles at Schloß Weinberg in Upper Austria.

 

He has performed at many venues, including Wigmore Hall; St John’s, Smith Square, and Cadogan Hall. He recently covered the role of Count Almaviva in Sir Thomas Allen’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro with Scottish Opera and made his professional operatic debut as Petrucci in Michael Figgis’ new production of Lucrezia Borgia for English National Opera.