English baritone Stephen Gadd was a finalist in the inaugural Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition, and among other numerous awards won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship. His early musical training was as a boy chorister at Coventry Cathedral. He then studied engineering while a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, before studying singing with Patrick McGuigan in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music. His recent operatic performances have included Macbeth for Glyndebourne Festival, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro for Salzburg Festspiele on tour, and a recording of Weber’s Euryanthe at the Warsaw International Beethoven Festival.