George Clark, baritone

British baritone George Clark, born in 1996 and currently based in Düsseldorf, graduated with a Master’s degree in Music from the Robert Schumann Hochschule in April 2024 under the tutelage of Prof. Konrad Jarnot. He recently won first prize at the 2023 Sieghard Rometsch Wettbewerb in the Kammermusik category, and will make his house debut in the 2024/25 season as a guest artist at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Abraham’s Märchen im Grand Hotel as Quartet Baritone. In April 2024, he performed the title roles in V. Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Der Kaiser) and K. Weill’s Der Tsar lässt sich fotografieren (Der Tsar) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. In June and July 2023, he was engaged at the Bayerische Staatsoper as a member of the semi-chorus in Brett Dean’s Hamlet. George is currently a recipient of the Stipendium der Richard Wagner Stiftung and a previous holder of the Deutschlandstipendium.

He appears in recital with renowned pianist Eric Schneider, performing song programmes at the Concerts d’été à St-Germain in Geneva in August 2024, and previously for the Im Zentrum Lieder concert series in Cologne. Highlights of his past concert engagements also include Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti in Satu Mare (Romania), Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with symphony orchestra at the Orchesterzentrum in Dortmund, and a joint performance of Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. He has received Lied masterclasses from Robert Holl, Elly Ameling, Roderick Williams, Ian Burnside and Hans Eijsackers at the 2022 International Lied Festival Zeist in the Netherlands.

Further operatic roles include Marcello (La Bohème, Puccini), Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) and L’Horloge comtoise / Le Chat (L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel) for RSH Opera productions; Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia, Britten) for Aspect Opera in York; and L’Arbre (L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel) and Drebednev (Paradise Moscow, Shostakovich) for the University of York Opera Society.

Growing up in Cornwall, he began singing as a chorister at Truro Cathedral, later holding a bass choral scholarship. From 2015 to 2018, he sang as a bass choral scholar at York Minster and graduated from the University of York with First-Class Honours in Music.

Since September 2024, he has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, in the class of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout.

Last updated: 13 February 2026