30/03/2025
🎼 Meet our soloists: Sam Morton-Morris 🎼
London-based lyric baritone Sam Morton Morris is at the cusp of an exciting solo career, performing an eclectic range of repertoire encompassing opera, oratorio and song. Educationally, he held musical scholarships at Wi******er College and Royal Holloway, University of London, at which he sang with the Chapel Choir, recording a number of CDs and performing regularly in London and across Europe. After being awarded first-class honours in Music, he attended the Guildhall at postgraduate level under the patronage of Dame Felicity Lott, whose scholarship he won in 2021.
As a soloist, Sam has sung solo roles in an eclectic range of Oratorio works as Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Purcell’s Come, ye sons of Art, John Stainer’s The Crucifixion as Christ, and Bach’s Johannes Passion singing Pilate with the baritone solo arias. Sam has been a long-time member of the St. Endellion Festival, where he sings in the Chorus, with highlights being Britten’s Death in Venice, Gloriana and Billy Budd. He has recently started singing some solo repertoire at the festival including step-out roles in Death in Venice and Peter Grimes, both of which saw him on stage with Roderick Williams and Mark Padmore. He also premiered Oliver Tarney’s song Lines Composed Upon… at St. Endellion in 2021, as well as The Hurlers and the Rumour Catcher by Maddy Aldis-Evans in 2022.
Sam learns with Richard Berkeley-Steele, and in the past has worked with Stuart MacIntyre, Susan Waters, Iain Burnside & Julius Drake, among others. In September, Sam is moving to The United States, to study for his Master’s in Opera.
