- Bass-baritone.
- Now a teacher at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. This is a very highly looked at school for music. It is in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a voice teacher of many students and also, he teaches German pronunciation. (January 2005)
- After a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1963, he was congratulated by a stranger from the audience. The stranger was composer Benjamin Britten. Britten had been invited to hear him, and this was effectively his audition for joining the English Opera Group.
- He earned a chemistry degree at Liverpool University in 1952. After national service in the RAF, he taught chemistry at a technical college in London. He studied singing, first with Austen Carnegie, later with Roy Henderson. In 1961 he became a vicar choral at St Paul's Cathedral.
- In 1962, he made his operatic debut at Glyndebourne as the Doctor in "Pelléas et Mélisande".
- He was appointed a CBE in 1975.
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