Sam Young studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize, and previously graduated from Bath Spa University. In 2023, he was recipient of the Young Artist Award in conjunction with the Strand International Festival of Song. He is a Young Artist with Opera Prelude for 2024/2025, and was previously an Emerging Artist with Longborough Festival Opera as part of their 2024 season. He will be returning to Longborough for their 2025 season to play the role of Aeneas in their new production of Dido and Aeneas.

Sam has previously been a member of the chorus with companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Tour and English National Opera. Previous roles include Belcore/Dulcamara in The Implausible Potions of Dr Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore) (Longborough/Playground Opera); Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (Hewlett Opera Company); Sergeant in La bohème (Longborough Festival Opera); Morales/Escamillo in Carmen Reimagined (Rogue Opera); the title role in Don Giovanni (Hurn Court Opera); Customs Officer cover in La bohème (Glyndebourne Tour);  Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (St Bartholomew's Orchestra; Flat Pack Music); La Comte Ludorf in La Nonne Sanglante (Gothic Opera, UK premiere, Off-West End Awards winner, Best Opera Production 2022); Papageno in The Magic Flute, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Mikado in The Mikado (Opera Anywhere, UK tour); Marcello cover in La bohème, Moralès in Carmen (Oxford Opera); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Rogue Opera).

In 2019, he performed as part of Downton Abbey Live with the Chamber Orchestra of London at Highclere Castle, and again with the City Lights Symphony Orchestra at KKL Luzern, Switzerland. Other solo concert and oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Messiah; Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Opera in the City Festival); Jesus in Bach’s St John’s Passion; Haman in Handel’s Esther.