Tenor
Benjamin Clark is a tenor and conductor. He studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire where he was the Morag Noble scholar, and was previously the Leverhulme Arts Scholar and the Linda Pilgrim Charitable Trust Scholar. He previously studied music and German in Durham, Vienna and at King’s College, London.
Solo highlights include singing the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in King’s Place, The Swan in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Jennik in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Flute and Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
He is a keen proponent of English Song and Lieder, and has performed Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Britten’s Winter Words in recital. He has sung in numerous masterclasses, most recently taken by tenor James Gilchrist and Sir Thomas Allen.
As a conductor, Ben leads choral and singing workshops around the world, recently having led sessions on singing technique and breathing in YK Pao School, Shanghai and a singing day in Britten’s Red House. He directs the singing outreach programme for Westminster Cathedral, and conducts a choral society and three children’s choirs in South London. He has sung with the Sixteen, Tenebrae and Stile Antico, among others.
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