His debut was at the Norwich Music Festival in 1899.Arthur Eaglefield Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924), 403. He appeared for Henry J. Wood at a Queen's Hall prom on 9 February 1900 in Arthur Sullivan's The Martyr of Antioch.H.J. Wood, My Life of Music (Gollancz, London 1946 edn), 137–138). He was also a soloist at Wood's Trafalgar Day Centenary Concert of 21 October 1905 (at which Wood's Fantasia on British Sea-Songs was first performed).Wood 1946, 190–191. In 1906 he became the principal bass soloist in the Handel Festival (The Crystal Palace) concerts, and remained so until the 1920s.Eaglefield-Hull, 1924.
