Hastings-born baritone Samuel McKeever completed his Bachelor's Degree in Classical Performance with First Class Honours at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music in 2021. In 2023 he was the winner of the Wellington Aria Competition, and in 2022 he was awarded third prize in the finals of the Lockwood New Zealand Aria. 

Samuel is a Project Prima Volta graduate, and an alumnus of the New Zealand Opera School. In early 2024 he performed the role of Mercutio in Festival Opera’s Roméo et Juliette.

Samuel's stage history includes the roles of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Festival Opera/NZSO, 2023), Enrico (understudy) in Lucia di Lammermoor (Wellington Opera, 2023), Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen (FO, 2022), and the Marchese in La traviata (WO, 2022).

Concert highlights include Verdi's Requiem (Napier Civic Choir, 2023), St. John Passion (Bach Musica NZ, 2023), Handel's Samson (BMNZ, 2022), Gareth Farr's Terra Incognita (Wellington Chamber Orchestra, 2022),  Messiah (St. George's, Thames, 2022; NCC, 2021), and the NZSO's 'Broadway Matinee' concert in collaboration with Project Prima Volta (2021).