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Stuart James Patterson is a Scottish tenor and voice teacher.

Education
Born 7 November 1958 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, he went to Paisley Grammar School and Strathclyde University, gaining a BA in Arts and Social Sciences in 1979. From a young age, he was proficient on the piano-accordeon and sang Scottish folk songs. He became a member of Paisley Abbey Choir and studied singing first in Glasgow then London, Paris and Florence. He attended the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies where he had lessons from Sir Peter Pears.

Career
His operatic début in 1983 was as Lindoro in the The Italian Girl in Algiers with Opera 80 (precursor of English Touring Opera). The pursuit of a stronger technique took him to the Fiesole School of Music, Italy. As a member of the troupe of Teatro Verdi, Pisa, he sang mainly Mozart, Monteverdi and Rossini under the guidance of his mentor, Maestro Claudio Desderi. He settled in France where he was engaged in opera houses such as Opéra-Comique de Paris and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lille, Tours, Perpignan, Lyon, Marseille, Tourcoing, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes. He has also appeared in Athens, Bergen, Bern, Mexico City, Berlin Staatsoper, Lübeck, Taïpeï, Bregenz Festival.... His repertoire stretches to more than 140 roles over a career of 35 years and he is one of today's leading buffo tenor or spieltenor on the operatic stage, with particular success in roles like Doktor Blind in Strauss Die Fledermaus, Cajus in Verdi's Falstaff (opera), Mime in Wagner's Siegfried (opera), Herodes in Richard Strauss's Salome (opera), Schmidt in Massenet's Werther  or Flute in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) and in La Vie Parisienne, winter 2016.

In the 1990s, he taught English diction and phonetics at the Conservatoire de Paris for some 6 years. He created the Festival Lyrique de Montperreux(France) in 2009 of which he is Artistic Director and principal voice teacher. Since 2012, he has been Professeur de Chant at the Haute Ecole de Musique (Geneva University of Music) in Geneva and Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

Personal
He signed a civil partnership with Alexandre Feser in 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Audio

 * 1995:MOZART : CD Coronation Mass and Vespers, Paris, conducted by Patrick Marco
 * 1996:Philippe MION : Léone, contemporary opera,  Empreintes DIGITALes
 * 20002:SCHOSTAKOVITCH : CD Nos (several roles) in Lausanne, conducted by Armin Jourdan
 * 2009:BRITTEN/GELIOT/RAVEL/McPHEE : Recital CD, A laddie's sang, Passavent Music, with Florence Boissolle (piano)
 * 2012:MASSENET : CD Werther (Schmidt) live from Covent Garden, with Sophie Koch and Rolando Villazon, conducted by Antonio Pappano, for Deutsche Grammophon

DVD
2011 :WAGNER : Siegfried (Mime) in Lübeck, 2010-11, conducted by Roman Brogli-Sacher, Cantate Musicaphon records.

Externa links

 * Official Website
 * Website of the Festival Lyrique de Montperreux