Amitai Pati Tenor

Biography

Amitai Pati graduated from the Wales International Academy of Voice, where he studied with c Dennis O'Neill. In 2014, he was invited to join the Young Singers Project in Salzburg, Austria, where he performed with Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez, and Ludovic Tézier.

He is a former student of the 2016 Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, where he sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte. In recent seasons, he sang Ferrando at English National Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at San Francisco Opera then again during a concert at the Tanglewood Festival, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at Seattle Opera, Jupiter and Apollo (Sémélé) at New Zealand Opera. Amitai Pati recently made his European debut as Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles) at the Philharmonie de Paris. During the 2022-23 season, he portrayed Tamino (The Magic Flute) at Opéra de Montpellier, Alfredo (La Traviata) at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Roméo (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette) at Opéra de Rouen and Ferrando at the Tanglewood Festival.

On the concert stage, Amitai Pati sings, this season, Mozart’s Requiem in Wellington and Auckland with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and then with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Paris Philharmonie. He sings Gounod’s Saint François d'Assise with Insula Orchestra in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, and will then sing Beethoven’s Fantaisie chorale in Hong-Kong with the same orchestra. His concert repertoire also include Orff’s Carmina Burana and Bartók’s Cantata profana. He is featured on the recordings for Pentatone of La fanciulla del West and Madama Butterfly with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster. In the 2023-24 season, he will be Tamino at San Francisco Opera and other European venues. Along with his brother, tenor Pene Patin, and their cousin, baritone Moses Mackay, Amitai Pati is a member of the vocal trio SOL3 MIO, which is exclusively recording with Universal Music.