George Clark

Baritone

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Baritone George Clark made his operatic debut at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in summer 2025 in Sir George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This, subsequently reprising his roles of The Artisan and The Collector at Cologne Opera in May 2026. He is 1st prize winner of the Fanny-Hensel-Wettbewerb 2026 Lied-duo at Schloß Weißenbrunn.

He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium, under the mentorship of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout. This year he has been selected as a prizewinner of the Royaumont Abbaye et Fondation Mélodie-Lied Campus 2026 with Lied-duo partner Pierre-Nicolas Colombat. The duo were also finalists at the 28th International Singing Competition Lied-Duo in Clermont-Ferrand and won 4th prize at the Copenhagen Lied Competition 2025.

In the 2024/25 season he sang at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Abraham’s Märchen im Grand Hotel and performed the title roles in Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Kurt Weill’s Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. In 2023 he was the first prize winner of the Sieghard Rometsch Wettbewerb in the category of chamber music and was engaged at the Bayerische Staatsoper as a member of the semi-chorus in Brett Dean’s Hamlet.

Further highlights of his concert repertoire include Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti in Satu Mare, Romania, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen at the Orchester Zentrum in Dortmund, and Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf.

George grew up in Cornwall, where he began singing as a chorister at Truro Cathedral before holding a bass choral scholarship. From 2015-2018 he sang as a bass choral scholar at York Minster and graduated from the University of York with a First-Class Honours degree in Music. In April 2024, he completed a Master of Music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, where he studied with Prof. Konrad Jarnot.

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