Baritone Sam Hird is a Masters student at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of baritone Peter Savidge and repertoire coach Caroline Dowdle. In May he made his Wigmore Hall debut as part of a select group of singers from the RCM. Earlier in March he took on the role of Danilo in the RCM production of The Merry Widow and Jesus in Bach's St John Passion with Danesborough Chorus. In February he won First Place and the Audience Vote at the Clonter Opera Prize. He was joint winner of the Prix Thierry Mermod vocal award at the 2023 Verbier Festival and most recently won the Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition at the RCM. Other recent Engagements include Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni Tenorio (both RCM productions), Jesus in the St John Passion with Milton Keynes Chorale, and as a Rising Star at the Shipston Song Festival.
Sam is a Samling Artist and is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and the Richard Silver Scholarship.