British baritone Paul Grant is a recent graduate of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the programme’s second British singer. During his time in the Accademia, he performed as Grégorio Roméo et Juliette, Ein Kappadozier Salome, and Dandini for their children’s performances of La Cenerentola. He has since returned to La Scala for performances of Guillaume Tell, Ariadne auf Naxos, Adés The Tempest, and as Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Recent performance highlights include celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Georg Solti Accademia at the Hungarian State Opera, Duruflé Requiem at the Edinburgh International Festival, Brahms Ein deutches Requiem with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, a recital for Teatro La Fenice, as well as appearances at Bolzano Festival and Lausitz Festival.

Operatic performances include Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Holland Park, Il Conte d’Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro at ROH Muscat, Claudio Béatrice et Bénédict with Irish National Opera, Smirnov in Walton’s The Bear at the Lerici Music Festival and Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa, and, with Royal Academy Opera, Robert in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, and Minsk Man in Jonathan Dove’s Flight.

Grant was born in Edinburgh and studied with Glenville Hargreaves and Jonathan Papp at the Royal Academy of Music where he was a member of the Academy Song Circle and was a soloist for the RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series. He was a Britten Pears Young Artist, a Samling Artist and is an alumnus of the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto. He won the 2018 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award and in the 2018/19 season was an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera.