Omar Ebrahim began singing as a chorister at Coventry Cathedral and went on to study voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He served his performing apprenticeship at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Glyndebourne. He has been associated with many new music projects including The Electrification of the Soviet Union by Nigel Osbourne and Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Berio’s Un Re in Ascolto and Birtwistle’s Gawain for the Royal Opera House. He appeared in Liza Lim’s opera The Navigator at the festivals in Brisbane and Melbourne and gave first performances of Enno Poppe’s concert and opera collaborations with Marcel Beyer, Interzone, Arbeit Nahrung, Wohnung and IQ, at the Berlin Festival, the Munich Biennale and Schwetzingen. In exploring the connection between spoken word and song, he has helped recreate the sound worlds of Frank Zappa (Ensemble Modern, The Adventures of Greggary Peccary) and Blade Runner with the Heritage Orchestra. Other text led projects include Morton Feldman’s Words and Music and Frank O’Hara Songs with the Ensemble Recherche, King Gesar by Peter Lieberson for the Munich Biennale. He is also closely associated with Ligeti’s Aventure et nouvelles Aventures. He has performed and recorded In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass, Michael Nyman’s Facing Goya, Kris de foort’s House of the sleeping Beauties and John Harle’s ballad opera Jamie Allan.