Scottish Tenor Ross Sharkey is currently studying for a Masters in Musical Theatre Performance at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), having been awarded an RSAMD Trust Scholarship and an Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Ross graduated from the RSAMD in 2009 with a BMus (Hons) in Vocal Studies under the tutelage of Iain Paton and with an endorsement in Community Music under the direction of Mary Troup. During his undergraduate studies, Ross was highly commended in the Jean Highgate Singing Scholarship Competition and commended in the Governors’ Recital Prize for Singing.

Ross began his musical training upon entering the RSAMD’s Junior Academy of Music, where he studied piano and singing. During his school years as a pupil of St Margaret’s High School, he was a recipient of both music and drama prizes, a winner of the Monklands’ Rotary Club Young Musician of the Year and the Glasgow Music Festival.

Ross has toured Scotland and Germany with the RSAMD Chamber Choir and sung in joint opera productions between the RSAMD and Scottish Opera. He has performed in the Paisley Abbey Choral Festival as a solo recitalist and consort singer and is a regular Burns singer.

Ross co-founded and sings with Dieci, an A Cappella Vocal Octet who were Grand Finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year Competition that was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 4 Television. He is also co-director for their Education and Outreach Programme that aims to make singing and classical music an accessible and live experience.

An active teacher, Ross has a particular interest in community and educational music and has taught for a number of youth and educational programmes funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the National Lottery. In 2007, Ross joined the vocal staff of UK Theatre School (Glasgow). He is currently teaching for the RSAMD's Dramaworks Musical Theatre course. In addition to this, he is Organist and Choir Master at Newton Mearns Parish Church.