Samuel Sakker

London based Australian tenor, Samuel Sakker, studied Music at the Queensland Conservatorium, and later, Commerce at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Recently Samuel was awarded first place in the 2017 Wagner Society Singing Competition by a panel including Dame Janet Baker, Dame Felicity Lott and President of The Society, Dame Gwyneth Jones. He was awarded second place in the inaugural 2017 Grange Festival Singing Competition, and has been the recipient of awards from the Opera Awards Foundation and the Ian Potter Cultural Foundation. ​ A former Royal Opera House company principal, the 2017/18 season engagements include Erik Der fliegende Holländer (Nederlandse Reisopera); Laertes in the Australian premier of Brett Dean’s Hamlet (Adelaide Festival); tenor soloist in Song of