Ronald Samm was born in Trinidad and studied in Great Britain at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio. He was a finalist in the Alexander Young Vocal Competition and attended master classes with John Tomlinson, Roger Vignoles and Johnathan Miller. The latter chose him to play Don José and Otello in the BBC TV series "Opera Works". He sang the role of Florestan in Graham Vick's multi-award-winning production of Fidelio, which won first prize in the category of opera at the South Bank Show Awards in 2002. Among the other roles in his repertoire are Don José in Carmen, the Drm-Major in Wozzeck, the title role of The Prodigal Son, Tamino, the First Armed Man and Second Priest in The Magic Flute, Mercure, Arcas, Tisiphone in Hippolyte et Aricie, Canio in Pagliacci, the title role of Otello, Bardolfo in Falstaff, Spoletta in Tosca, Laca in Jenůfa and the Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos. He has appeared regularly on the concert platform with many top orchestras. His concert engagements have taken him all over the British Isles, to Gibraltar and Spain, as well as the Lionel Wendt Theatre in Sri Lanka. His oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Bach's Magnificat and the St John Passion, Mendelssohn's Elijah, as well as Beethoven's Mass in C, the Mozart Requiem, the Verdi Requiem and Stainer's Crucifixion. Recently he has sung Siegmund in The Valkyrie at the Teatro Nacional de San Carlos in Lisbon, Florestan in Fidelio for the Burgarena Festival in Austria and Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess for Opera de Lyon and in concerts for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Sardinia.