Records Mozart: The Magic Flute (Decca) Salzburg Festival, Riccardo Muti Chausson: Le roi Arthus (Telarc) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein Kiri and Friends (EMI) Auckland Philharmonia Awards 2017 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit Queen's Birthday Honours List 2016 Doctor of Music (Honoris Causa) Victoria University of Wellington 2005 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award Grand finalist in the 2002 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 2003 United Kingdom Wagner Society Prize 2000 Masters of Music Manhattan School of Music 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Encouragement Award 1998 Fulbright Scholarship 1995 Bachelor of Music with Honours Victoria University of Wellington 1994 Bachelor of Music University of Otago References Links Sources "Tenors in training", nysun.com Profile, nytimes.com Profile, newyorker.com Profile, iht.com Profile, artsfoundation.org.nz Profile, stuff.co.nz External links 1971 births Living people EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists Manhattan School of Music alumni New Zealand operatic tenors People from Ashburton, New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington alumni People educated at Ashburton College Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit University of Otago alumni Juilliard School alumni Winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 21st-century New Zealand male singers Grammy Award winners Fulbright alumni