BARITONE
Briggs, an 18 year old high-baritone and has been formally studying classical voice for the past 9 years. He recently
graduated Interlochen Arts Academy, as a classical voice major under Director of Choirs, Dr.Carter Smith, Director of
Opera, Dr. Laura Osgood Brown, and Briggs’s studio teacher, Jeff Norris. Briggs has accepted to the Royal College
Music in London, where he will study under studio professor, Tim Evan Jones. Briggs most recently performed in the
world-premiere of Edmonia, by Bill Banfield, performing alongside Sydney Harcourt. He was Monostatos, in The Magic
Flute, by Mozart with the Manhattan Opera Studio, Anaes, in “Dido and Anaes”,by Henry Purcell and libretto by Nahum
Tate, Col. Calverley in Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan, and in various operworks, such as Marcello in La Bohème, by
Giacomo PuccinI performing “Sappiper tuo governo…Quando m’en vo”, Alidoro in La Cerentola performing
Introduzione “No, no, no”,
He previously attended Shattuck St. Mary’s School as a member of their Vocal Performance Center of Excellence under
Director Mr. Pete Schlief, where he also attended boarding school for 3 years to include 2 opera performances with MN
Opera’s Project Opera, performed in 3 school musicals, competitions, and local performances and touring.
Early Years:
Briggs was a touring Concert-Choir member of the American Boychoir School, under Director Fernando Ruiz~Malvar, in
Princeton, New Jersey, with whom he toured all over the US and China, to include the Beijing Concert Hall, the
Metropolitan Museum, and the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra on numerous occasions,
when he was in 5th grade.
Prior to his time with the American Boychoir, Briggs was cast as a Sprite in Verdi’s “Falstaff”, performed by
Shakespeare Opera Theatre at age 9. Briggs also performed in 40 shows of “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber”, at
Riverside Center, in Fredericksburg, VA, where Briggs was featured singing “Pie Jesus” and performed in 9 other songs
alongside the cast at age 10. Additionally, Briggs was cast in the 10th episode of “Vireo”, a made for television opera.
Briggs has been a part of the youth and adult choir at his church, Trinity Episcopal, in Upperville, VA , for the past 10
years under the direction of Christian Myers, head of music ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Virginia,
and continues under the current music minister, Daniel Miller
AWARDS:
• Westminster Summer Vocal Institute Musicianship Award 2019
• US NEW STAR COMPETITION- 2021 1st place and overall Top Performer
• Gaitherburg Young Arts- 2022 Competition- Honorable Mention
• Schmidt Competition: Most Promising Award 2022
• CS Music- Winner of the Summer Feedback Competition, 2022
• CS Music All-State Singer Awards, 2023
• (NATS) Great Lakes Regional Competition- made top 5 and advanced to the preliminary round held later in April 2023
• Hal Leonard High School Competition 2023: Honorable Mention
• World Classical Music Awards: Platinum Winner
• Medici International Music Competition
• AIMA: 2024 Bronze Award
PROGRAMS:
• RSCM: 2018 and 2019
• Westminster: High School Vocal Institute 2019, 2020
• Berklee Summer Intensive: 2021
• Eastman Classical Studies: 2022
• Manhattan Opera Studio Summer Festival- cast as Monostatos in “The Magic Flute” to be performed at the National Opera
House (summer 2023)
• Bel Canto Tuscany- summer 2024
You can find Briggs’s 2024 Romantic Music Competition vocal performance here.