Brennan Alleyne is an undergraduate tenor and multi-instrumentalist currently studying at the RNCM. Passionate from a young age about music’s ability to evoke emotion in others, Brennan has always been driven to pursue excellence in all of his musical endeavours. This has led Brennan from the Royal Albert Hall to Gentse Feesten before he began to focus on opera. His opera highlights include chorus roles in Parsifal & Il barbiere di Siviglia (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Ernani & The Boatswain’s Mate (Buxton International Festival), Le nozze di Figaro (RNCM Opera), and Madama Butterfly (Hallé) as well as the roles of Dormont in La scala di seta, Tapioca in L’étoile (RNCM Opera), and Phoebus in The Fairy-Queen (HGO), among others. Last year he won the international division of the George Shirley Vocal Competition, and the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor First Prize in the Williams-Howard Memorial Award for his performance of art songs by African heritage composers.