Amitai Pati
When Amitai Pati stepped into the spotlight in 2019 at the Philharmonie de Paris in a concert of Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Amitai Pati announced himself as one of the new lyrical voices of the next generation. Since then, he has made a number of acclaimed debuts, including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the San Francsico Opera in Michael Cavanagh's new production under the baton of Bertrand de Billy, Alfredo in La Traviata at the Théâtre du Capitole du Toulouse under Michele Spotti and in various concerts, as well as both Cosí fan tutte and Don Giovanni at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. His current season is no less impressive: he makes his debut at the Opéra national de Paris in a new production of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, and returns to San Francisco Opera to sing Tamino in Barrie Kosky's iconic production of Die Zauberflöte under the baton of Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
In addition to his opera work, Amitai Pati always finds time for concert engagements. Last season he made his debut in Mozart's Requiem with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Gemma New and with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris under Hervé Niquet at the Philharmonie de Paris. He also performed Gounod's rarely heard oratorio Saint Francois d'Assise with the Insula Orchestra under Laurence Equilbey in both Paris and Aix-en-Provence, and will make his London concert debut in the same work at the Barbican. In a special project with Les Grandes Voix in Paris, he will join his brother Pene Pati and soprano Golda Schultz for an evening of arias, duets and trios with Les frivolités Parisiennes at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
In the recording studio, Amitai Pati recently recorded a Mozart recording for Alpha with Golda Schultz with the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Antonello Manacorda, to be released later this season. He also makes a guest appearance on his brother Pene Pati's second solo album for Warner. He can also be heard on recent Pentatone recordings of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and La Fanciulla del West performed by the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster.
Amitai Pati is a graduate of the Wales International Academy of Voice, where he studied with Dennis O'Neill. He was invited to the Young Singers Project in Salzburg in 2014, where he shared the stage with Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez and Ludovic Tézier. He is a graduate of the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, where he sang his first leading role as Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte.
Together with his brother, tenor Pene Pati, and his cousin, baritone Moses Mackey, Amitai Pati is part of the New Zealand vocal trio SOL3 MIO, currently signed to Universal Music.