Kölnischer Rundschau

George Clark, a British Baritone based in Düsseldorf, has been recognised as a “rising star of Lied interpretation” (Kölnischer Rundschau) and presents a diverse range of experience both on the opera and concert stage. He most recently won first prize at the Rometsch Wettbewerb 2023 in the category Kammermusik, and in June/July 2023 was engaged at the Bayerische Staatsoper as a member of the Semi-chorus in Hamlet by Brett Dean. He will be making his house debut this season as a guest artist at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Abraham’s Märchen im Grand Hotel as Quartett Baritone. In April 2024 he performed the lead 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, Düsseldorf. George is currently a recipient of the Stipendium der Richard Wagner Stiftung and a previous holder of the Deutschland Stipendium.

He is to be seen onstage with renowned pianist Eric Schneider performing Lieder-Abende at the Concerts d’été à St Germain in Geneva in August of 2024, and previously for the Im Zentrum Lieder concert series in Cologne. Highlights of previous 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 Orchester Zentrum in Dortmund, and a joint performance of Brahms’s Die Schöne Magelone at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. He received Lied masterclasses from Robert Holl, Elly Ameling, Roderick Williams, Ian Burnside and Hans Eijsackers at the 2022 International Lied Festival in Zeist, Netherlands.

Roles on the operatic stage 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 (Rape of Lucretia, Britten) for Aspect Opera (York), L'Arbre (L'enfants et les Sortilèges, Ravel) and Drebednev (Paradise Moscow, Shostakovich) for the University of York Opera Society. 

Featured choral work includes singing and recording with I Fagiolini, most notably live on BBC Newsnight to promote their Prom in 2017. He was a member of the Genesis Sixteen 2017 - 18 cohort and has since sung with The Sixteen on their Queen of Heaven Tour in 2019. He continues his freelance choral work in NRW, Germany with groups such as the Chorwerk Ruhr, Rheinstimmen Ensemble, and Chorbüro.

Growing up in Cornwall, he began singing as a chorister at Truro Cathedral, after which he held a bass choral scholarship. In 2015-2018 he sung as a bass choral scholar at York Minster and graduated from the University of York with a First Class Honours Music undergraduate degree. In April 2024 he graduated with a Masters of Music from the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, where he was taught by Prof. Konrad Jarnot.