PATRICK TERRY
COUNTERTENOR
BIOGRAPHY
Countertenor Patrick Terry is winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2017 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Second Prize at the 2019 Handel Singing Competition, and is a Samling Artist. Beseeching readers to “remember his name,” the London Telegraph hailed his technique as “excellent” and “virtuosic,” while The Times has called his performance of Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina “stunning” and “absolutely fabulous.”
The countertenor began last season in the title role of Rinaldo in his début at Minnesota Opera and performed Brett Dean’s Elbphilharmonie Visions in concert with the Elbphilharmonic Orchestra. He also appeared as Rosenkrantz in Brett Dean’s Hamlet with the Bayerische Staatsoper and joined English National Opera as Akhnaten (cover). This season, Terry joins Opera North for their production of Masque of Might and joins the Metropolitan Opera roster for their production of El Niño.
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Recent engagements have included Ruggiero in Alcina, Eustazio and covering the title role in Rinaldo with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Serafino in The Intelligence Park in a collaboration with Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera House, Rosencrantz in Hamlet with Oper Köln, Joachim in Susanna with the Royal Opera House, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in his début with The Grange Festival, and Farnace in Mitridate, rè di Ponto with Classical Opera (canceled due to COVID-19).
Mr. Terry joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 2018-2019 season where he sang Arsace in Berenice and Artemis in Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra. Additionally, he traveled to Japan to appear in Le Promesse (Gala Concert by Young Opera Singers Tomorrow of the World) at the New National Theatre, Tokyo and returned to the Wigmore Hall for Heroes and Villains, appeared in Beyond Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Sir Charles Hubert Parry at the London Song Festival, and sang Ruggiero in Alcina with La Nuova Musica and The Choice of Hercules with the London Handel Orchestra.
Also on the operatic stage, Mr. Terry has been featured as The Boy / Angel 1 in Written on Skin with the Melos Sinfonia, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Chicago Summer Opera, Rosencrantz in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne On Tour, and the title role in Teseo with La Nuova Musica at the 2018 London Handel Festival. On the concert stage, he has appeared at Wigmore Hall with Imogen Cooper, and performed as alto soloist in works such as Orff’s Carmina burana, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, and the Bach G Minor Mass, as well as several cantatas.
Selected for the 2018 Leeds Lieder Young Artists Festival, further competition success has included Second Prize at the London Handel Festival Singing Competition, the Loveday Song Prize with the Kathleen Ferrier Prize, Second Prize at the 2015 Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Competition, winning the 2014 Maureen Lehane Vocal Award, and being awarded the 2017 Richard Lewis / Jean Shanks Award.
Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Mr. Terry earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, where he studied with Adriana Zabala and graduated from London’s Royal Academy of Music in 2018 where he studied with Caitlin Hulcup and Michael Chance on the Opera Course with generous support from the Josephine Baker Trust and the John J. Adams Scholarship. While at the Royal Academy, he performed the roles of The Refugee in Flight and Ruggiero in Alcina.
Current as of August 30, 2023
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"... vocally thrilling..." – The Observer
In the Realms of Sorrow – “Patrick Terry gave a vocally thrilling, heart-rending and turbulent account of Il delirio amoroso."
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“... captivating…” – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rinaldo – “…our Rinaldo is a countertenor, Patrick Henry. A University of Minnesota grad who’s gone on to an international career, Terry proves a captivating protagonist with a powerful voice and an endearingly vulnerable stage persona."
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"... effectively stole the show…” – The Guardian
In this Brief Moment – “Yet it was Darwin’s measured and poetic tone that created the requisite sense of awe, sung by soloists Jennifer France and Patrick Terry with moments of extreme beauty in the intertwining of their soaring lines. These two effectively stole the show, soprano France with her impeccable diction and laser precision, and countertenor Terry in Jocelyn’s zany cabaret sequence.”
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"... excellent..." – The Times
Tamerlano – “Patrick Terry is excellent as the wavering Andronico.”
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"... his finest moment yet..." – Seen and Heard International
Susanna– “the American countertenor Patrick Terry is a wonderful singer: his ‘On fair Euphrates’ verdant side’ was a masterclass in Handelian lyricism. He has already, as a Jette Parker member, essayed Arsace (Berenice), Artemis (Phaedra) and Serafino (The Intelligence Park); this may well be his finest moment yet. His voice is full and expressive; not to mention pliable. It is the variety of his vocal colour that impresses the most, perhaps.”
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