Meet our Soloists - Samuel Dundas

Samuel Dundas, a graduate of the Melba Conservatorium of Music and winner of the Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship and the Dame Heather Begg Award, has been a member of Victorian Opera’s Developing Artist Program, Opera Australia’s Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program and of the vocal faculty at Hobart Conservatorium of Music.

Featured major role debuts this year are Zurga (Pearlfishers) for New Zealand Opera; Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)and Figaro (Barber of Seville) for Opera Australia; title role Eugen Onegin for West Australian Opera; Nerone (Coronation of Poppea/Kats-Chernin) for Victorian Opera; Gunther (Götterdämmerung) Sydney Symphony. Samuel has also recently been heard as Dandini (La Cenerentola) and Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) for Opera Queensland, Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus) for West Australian Symphony, Marcello (La Boheme) for New Zealand Opera and Opera Queensland and in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Sydney Symphony, Brahms Requiem with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and in Tasmanian Symphony’s Christmas Gala.

Major appearances on the concert platform also include Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Haydn’s Harmony Mass and Fauré and Mozart Requiems (Tasmanian Symphony); Carmina Burana (West Australian and Adelaide Symphony);Brahms German Requiem (Sydney Symphony); recitals for Ten Days on the Island Festival, at Coriole Festival and Chamber Landscapes at Ukaria (Adelaide Festival)