Stefan Roberts is in his first year of postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is taught by Michael Chance CBE and Ian Partridge CBE. He graduated from the University of York in 2013 with a BA in History. During his three years at York, he sang as a choral scholar at York Minster. He was previously a choral scholar at Norwich Cathedral under David Lowe, studied singing at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford under Bill Ives. As well as having performed in concert as a soloist alongside the Britten Sinfonia, the Tallis Chamber Choir, and Fretwork, he has sung in the St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concert series. He has also been broadcast as a soloist a number of times live on BBC Radio 3. In 2011, he recorded solos with Kate Bush on the second track of her latest album “50 Words for Snow” which met with widespread international acclaim. Other solo work includes Magdalen’s album of Byrd’s Second Service and Consort Anthems with Fretwork, alongside Rogers Covey-Crump. As an ensemble singer Stefan has recorded and broadcast extensively over the past 12 years. He sang on the internationally lauded “With a Merrie Noyse” with Magdalen College Choir, which was nominated for a Grammy™ Award in 2005, and alongside the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Voices and the choristers of King’s College, Cambridge singing Sir Paul McCartney’s “Ecce Cor Meum” which won the 2006 Classic Brit Award for Best Album. He has featured in many other broadcasts, recordings and performances as an ensemble singer, including with the Berlin Philharmonic in “Deep Blue”, George Fenton’s soundtrack to the BBC film of its landmark series “The Blue Planet”, the BBC Prom of the Blue Planet, and on Magdalen’s CD of the works of internationally acclaimed composer Grayston Ives. He most recently appeared on York Minster’s CD “Ebor Epiphany” as both and ensemble and solo singer and will appear on their new CD to be released in December 2014. He is generously sponsored by The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation, the Admiral Feteris Foundation and by bursary from the Royal Academy of Music. He has previously learnt with David Lowe, Ashley Stafford, Rebecca Outram, Giles White, Robert Rice, Janette Ives and Margaret Humphrey Clark.