Tristan completed his Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium. Since 2021, he has been a regular performer in the Opera Australia Schools Tour, performing the roles of Ferdinand (El Kid – 2023), Don Magnifico/King (Cinderella – 2022), and Figaro (The Barber of Seville – 2021). He has also been a member of the Opera Australia Chorus since 2018.

His opera/operetta roles include Figaro (Le Nozze Di Figaro), Il Conte (Le Nozze Di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera), Dr Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Silvio (Pagliacci), Marcello (La Bohème), Alcindoro (La Bohème), Escamillo (Carmen), Germont (La Traviata), Barone Douphol (La Traviata), Dottor Grenvil (La Traviata), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Elder McLean (Susannah), Edmund Bertram (Mansfield Park), Giove (La Calisto), the Drunken Poet/Corydon (The Fairy Queen), the Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance), and Giuseppe Palmieri (The Gondoliers).

Tristan was a finalist in the 2017 German Australian Opera Grant, in the 2018 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition (“The Mathy”), and in the 2019 Joan Carden award. In addition to his singing career, Tristan has worked as a choral conductor, violinist, and composer.