Sam studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize. In 2023, he was the recipient of the Young Artist Award in conjunction with the Strand International Festival of Song. He made his debut as an Emerging Artist with Longborough Festival Opera in 2024 and is currently a Young Artist with Opera Prelude for 2024/2025.
Sam has previously been a member of the chorus with companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Tour and English National Opera. His upcoming roles include Marcello/La bohème (Devon Opera) and Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas (Longborough Festival Opera). Previous roles include Belcore, Dulcamara/L’elisir d’amore (Longborough/Playground Opera); Figaro/ Le nozze di Figaro (Hewlett Opera Company); Sergeant/La bohème (Longborough Festival Opera); Morales, Escamillo/Carmen Reimagined (Rogue Opera); the title role in Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera); Customs Officer (cover) La bohème (Glyndebourne Tour); Guglielmo/ Così fan tutte (St Bartholomew’s Orchestra; Flat Pack Music); La Comte Ludorf/La Nonne Sanglante (Gothic Opera, UK premiere, Off-West End Awards winner, Best Opera Production 2022); Papageno/The Magic Flute, Captain Corcoran/HMS Pinafore, Pirate King/The Pirates of Penzance, Mikado/The Mikado (Opera Anywhere, UK tour); Moralès/Carmen (Oxford Opera); Leporello/Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera). In 2019, Sam performed as part of Downton Abbey Live with the Chamber Orchestra of London at Highclere Castle, and again with the City Lights Symphony Orchestra at KKL Luzern, Switzerland. Other solo concert and oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Messiah; Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Opera in the City Festival); Jesus in Bach’s St John Passion; Haman in Handel’s Esther.