Born in 2002, London-Irish tenor Hugo Brady completed his bachelor’s degree at the Royal College of Music in June 2025 where he will continue his studies towards his master under the tutelage of Russell Smythe as an ABRSM scholar. During his time at the RCM, he had the pleasure of performing with Nevill Holt Opera and the Manchester Camerata, as well as with the LSSO at the Aldeburgh Festival and at Barbican Hall. Hugo has taken part in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Bernarda Fink, Roderick Williams and Veronique Gens, among others.
In the 2024/25 season, Hugo was named an Associate Artist of The Mozartists, performing a full Jommelli programme at Wigmore Hall, and made his role debut as Belfiore in La finta giardiniera at Cadogan Hall. He was further selected as a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a Samling Artist and an Oxford Song Young Artist. At the Oxford International Song Festival, he had the pleasure of performing alongside Sarah Connolly and pianist Graham Johnson and gave recitals at the Brunswick Vocal Arts with pianist Simon Lepper and at the LIFE Victoria festival in Barcelona with pianist Mark Rogers. Summer 2025 marked Hugo’s debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as The Novice in the new production of The Story of Billy Budd under the direction and adaptation of Ted Huffman, and his participation in the Festival’s Académie. He then continued to Switzerland and took part in the Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique, singing Triquet in a concert version of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra under the baton of Stanislav Kochanovsky.
Season 2025/26 will see further debuts a.o. Handel’s Messiah with the Philharmonie Zuid and the Stavanger Symphony as well as Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Residentie Orkest, all under the baton of Peter Dijkstra, and von Weber´s Jubelmesse in G major with the Dutch Radio Filharmonisch Orkest under Dima Slobodeniouk. He will return to Cadogan Hall with the Mozartists performing highlights from operas written in 1775 by Mozart, Haydn and J.C. Bach, and appear with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment singing Bach’s cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin at King’s Place. On the recital stage, Hugo continues his collaboration with Mark Rogers, returning to the Oxford International Song Festival with an Irish-themed program and to Wigmore Hall as part of a Samling Institute’s showcase recital. The season will end with his return to Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for an opera world premiere.
He began singing at age eight with the Royal Opera House’s Youth Opera Company, performing in operatic favorites such as La Bohème and Carmen. Before joining the RCM, he trained at the Centre for Young Musicians, where he won first prizes in both the New Talent British International Youth Music Competition and the Louis Watt Memorial Competition.
Hugo is the 2022 Junior Kathleen Ferrier Award winner and most recently received the Prix de l’Académie de la ville de Ciboure at the Festival Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
