Piran Legg is a British Bass – Baritone and a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he gained a Masters with Distinction in vocal performance on the Opera Course. Having graduated he undertook further study into vocal technique on the Artist’s Diploma course, studying under Kate Paterson. Piran has been described as having a ‘handsome baritone’ by Opera Magazine and as a ‘sensitive performer’ by the Times. He is the proud recipient of a music prize from the Canterbury Festival, a Fishmongers Company Scholarship and an International Opera Awards Young Artist bursary.
Since graduating Piran has worked extensively around the U.K. and abroad as a concert artist. Notable oratorio performances have seen Piran as the bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Amiens Cathedral, Elgar’s masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, both in Canterbury Cathedral, Brahms Requiem and Handel’s Messiah at Tewkesbury Abbey, in Dvorak’s Te Deum at Birmingham Town Hall and with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Caird Hall. In 2023 Piran has been the bass soloist in Dvorak’s epic Requiem with the St. Albans Bach Choir, Verdi’s Requiem with SSO and in Handel’s Messiah with the Phoenix Singers. Future plans include Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players as well as in the Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall.
Piran has performed extensively in Opera around the UK and abroad, singing roles with the likes of The London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Wexford Festival Opera, Garsington Opera and Chelsea Opera Group. Recent and future engagements include Sante in Il segreto di Susanna with Scottish Opera, Le Chat in L’enfant et les sortileges at the Barbican theatre and a performance as Nithalanka in Chelsea Opera Group’s 2024 concert performance of Lakme at Cadogan Hall.
Alongside more conventional repertoire Piran has enjoyed singing in contemporary and rarely performed works. He created the role of King Erysichthon in Edward Rushton’s chamber opera Cicadas with the London Symphony Orchestra as well as premiering workshOPERA’s acclaimed chamber opera Seven Velvet Suits based on the life of eccentric French genius Eric Satie. He has sung as Danieli in a concert performance at Cadogan Hall of Wagner’s little known Das Liebesverbot with Chelsea Opera Group. As a recital singer Piran has sung in solo recitals at the Barbican Theatre, Oxford Lieder Festival and the Cheltenham Festival, amongst others. He has worked with renowned accompanists Iain Burnside, Sholto Kynoch and Eugene Asti, as well as the noted Lieder ensemble Schubert and Co.
As a passionate singing teacher Piran devotes much of his professional life to working with singers of all ages and abilities. He teaches at the University of Birmingham, The Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department (as a guest teacher), Shrewsbury School and Denstone College. He teaches professional singers, has had students accepted into conservatoire and onto choral scholarship programmes and loves working with keen amateurs in his private studio in Shrewsbury.
Since graduating Piran has worked extensively around the U.K. and abroad as a concert artist. Notable oratorio performances have seen Piran as the bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Amiens Cathedral, Elgar’s masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, both in Canterbury Cathedral, Brahms Requiem and Handel’s Messiah at Tewkesbury Abbey, in Dvorak’s Te Deum at Birmingham Town Hall and with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Caird Hall. In 2023 Piran has been the bass soloist in Dvorak’s epic Requiem with the St. Albans Bach Choir, Verdi’s Requiem with SSO and in Handel’s Messiah with the Phoenix Singers. Future plans include Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players as well as in the Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall.
Piran has performed extensively in Opera around the UK and abroad, singing roles with the likes of The London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Wexford Festival Opera, Garsington Opera and Chelsea Opera Group. Recent and future engagements include Sante in Il segreto di Susanna with Scottish Opera, Le Chat in L’enfant et les sortileges at the Barbican theatre and a performance as Nithalanka in Chelsea Opera Group’s 2024 concert performance of Lakme at Cadogan Hall.
Alongside more conventional repertoire Piran has enjoyed singing in contemporary and rarely performed works. He created the role of King Erysichthon in Edward Rushton’s chamber opera Cicadas with the London Symphony Orchestra as well as premiering workshOPERA’s acclaimed chamber opera Seven Velvet Suits based on the life of eccentric French genius Eric Satie. He has sung as Danieli in a concert performance at Cadogan Hall of Wagner’s little known Das Liebesverbot with Chelsea Opera Group. As a recital singer Piran has sung in solo recitals at the Barbican Theatre, Oxford Lieder Festival and the Cheltenham Festival, amongst others. He has worked with renowned accompanists Iain Burnside, Sholto Kynoch and Eugene Asti, as well as the noted Lieder ensemble Schubert and Co.
As a passionate singing teacher Piran devotes much of his professional life to working with singers of all ages and abilities. He teaches at the University of Birmingham, The Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department (as a guest teacher), Shrewsbury School and Denstone College. He teaches professional singers, has had students accepted into conservatoire and onto choral scholarship programmes and loves working with keen amateurs in his private studio in Shrewsbury.
