INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells · Artist support

Adrian Ward Tenor

Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)

Adrian Ward trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate on the Opera Course. In 2008 he won the Royal Over-Seas League vocal section prize and in 2007 he was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in London. He is also an Independent Opera Fellowship Award winner and a Susan Chilcott Scholar.

His roles includes, Autumn The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at The Sage Gateshead for Samling Opera, Opera Highlights tour with Scottish Opera, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Horace Gounod‘s La Columbe and The Brazilian Offenbach’s La vie parisienne at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

As a soloist he has appeared at venues including Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, Snape Maltings, St John’s Smith Square and the Royal Albert Hall. Concert performances include Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Proms with Glyndebourne’s Fairy Queen, A Child of our Time at The Anvil, Handel’s Solomon for Windsor and Eton Choral Society and a gala concert with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra at the Theatre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels.

He has sung for the Brighton Festival, Songmakers’ Almanac, the Schubert Institute (Austria) and the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago).

Forthcoming engagements include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. Adrian currently studies with Paul Farrington.