Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he studied voice at the Elder Conservatorium and the Royal College of Music. He was an inaugural member of the Jette Parker Programme at the ROH and has since maintained a busy career in opera and concerts throughout the UK, Europe and Australia. For English Touring Opera he has performed: Figaro (Barber of Seville), Paolo (Simon Boccanegra), Hector (King Priam), Emireno (Handel's Ottone), Eduardo III (L'assedio di Calais), Marcello (La bohème), Oreste (Iphigénie en Tauride), Nello (Pia de' Tolomei), Teucer (Dardanus), Tiridate (Radamisto), and the title role in Macbeth.