This season Samoan tenor Amitai Pati sings Beppe in Pagliacci, Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux and Angel Quartet in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, bringing his time as a San Francisco Adler Fellow to a close.
Amitai received his master’s degree in advanced vocal studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice under the tutelage of tenor Dennis O’Neill. In 2014, he was invited to be a part of the Young Singers Project in Salzburg, Austria, where he appeared in performances and concerts including La Favorite with Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez, and Ludovic Tézier, and the tenor solo in a production of Mozart’s Spatzenmesse. Following this he became a participant of the 2016 Merola Opera Program, singing his first principal role as Ferrando in Così fan tutte under Mark Morash.
An experienced concert artist, Amitai has toured with the New Zealand Youth Choir, Graduate Choir, and the Auckland University Choir. He has sung in master classes with the likes of Joseph Rouleau, Della Jones, Dame Josephine Barstow, Dame Anne Murray, Maestro Richard Bonynge, and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
Amitai, along with his brother Pene Pati and their cousin Moses Mackay, comprise the highly successful New Zealand vocal trio SOL3 MIO, which mixes both classical and contemporary music.
