Sam Dhobhany

Sam Dhobhany is a young bass-baritone, born to Yemeni immigrant parents in Brooklyn, NY in 2001 (two days before 9/11). He attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn where he starred in three musicals, including Tony in West Side Story (when he was a tenor), Von Trapp in the Sound of Music and Prof. Callahan in Legally Blonde. His interest in classical voice and opera was sparked by his high school choir teacher and Bryn Terfel's recording of The Songs of Travel. Since then he has been a devoted fan of Bryn and decided to learn the complete cycle and performed it in his teacher's studio recital when he was only 17.

Between 2018 and 2019 Sam was a 1st prize winner in the Schmidt Foundation High School voice competition, a national winner of the Shirley Rabb Winston scholarship, a winner of the Concerto Competition at the Lunigiana International Music Festival, and the National Winner in the Classical Voice division of YoungArts. He recently completed his freshman year at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where this past February he performed his first ever opera role, Plutone in Monteverdi's Orfeo. He was a 2020 finalist in the Dayton Opera Guild Competition. Before the COVID19 pandemic, he was to be making his Italy debut in Bologna in a joint recital with a soprano, which has been postponed to 2021.