Born in Scotland, he trained at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. An inaugural Harewood Artist for English National Opera, his roles for the company include Siegmund (The Valkyrie). He is a regular guest at the Glyndebourne Festival, Grange Park Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North, and has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Seattle Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Teatro Real, Madrid and Dutch National Opera. Recent highlights include debuts at Staatsoper Hamburg as Finn/Bayan (Ruslan and Lyudmila) and Opera Philadelphia as Co-Ed 2, Algorithm 3, Neighbor and Death in the world premiere of Complications in Sue, Arjuna (Satyagraha) for Paris Opera, the title roles in new productions of Peter Grimes for WNO and The Excursions of Mr Broucek for the Brno Janáček Festival, Boris (Kat'a Kabanova) for the Glyndebourne Festival, Albert (Vec Makropulos) for Staatsoper Berlin, Loge (Das Rheingold) for La Monnaie, Brussels, Edmundo, Marquès de Nobile (The Exterminating Angel) for Paris Opera and Laca (Jenůfa) for the Royal Opera House and with the London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle.