Mr. Garrett made his Washington National Opera debut in the 2012-2013 season, where he was seen as Masetto in Don Giovanni (Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Performance), in the premiere of the American Opera Initiative, and as the Father in Hansel and Gretel. He has recently appeared at WNO as Papageno in The Magic Flute, a Steersman in Tristan und Isolde, Captain Gardiner in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, and in the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn and Me. He made his Wolf Trap Opera debut in 2013 as a Filene Young Artist, performing the roles of Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff and Il Barone di Trombonok in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. He returned to Wolf Trap Opera in the 2014 season to reprise the role of Escamillo and to portray the role of Son Ami in a new production of Milhaud’s rarely-performed Le pauvre matelot. In 2012, he made his Glimmerglass Festival debut covering La Haine in Armide and Amonasro in Aida, a role he reprised at Opera Santa Barbara in the following season.

A former resident artist of the Academy of Vocal Arts, he has been seen on stage with Kentucky Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Philadelphia’s Center City Opera Theater, where he performed Marcello in La bohème, Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. Previous concert work includes appearances with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Southwest Florida Symphony in Ft. Myers, and the Penn Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated with the Dolce Suono Ensemble in recital.

Mr. Garrett is a winner of the 2014 George London Foundation Competition. In the past three years, he has garnered top prizes in more than a dozen international vocal competitions, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation, the Jensen Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation, Fort Worth Opera’s McCammon Competition, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Texas Tech.