Samantha Clarke
Soprano
Australian/British soprano Samantha Clarke is the winner of the 2019 Guildhall Gold Medal and prize winner in the 2019 Grange International Festival Singing Competition. Samantha studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, as a Sir John Fisher Foundation and Independent Opera Scholar, under the tutelage of Mary Plazas. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Opera School as a Baroness de Turckheim Scholar, Help Musicians, Tait Memorial and Countess of Munster Trust Scholar and studied with Yvonne Kenny. In addition to the 2019 Guildhall Gold Medal, Samantha is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Leverhulme Royal Northern College of Music Award, the Dame Eva Turner Award and the Michael and Joyce Kennedy Award for the singing of Strauss.
In the 2025/26 season Samantha returns to Opera Australia as Euridice Orfeo ed Euridice, and is Artist in Residence with the West Australian Opera where she will make role debuts as Juliette Roméo et Juliette.
Her operatic roles include: Violetta La traviata, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Countess Le Nozze di Figaro, Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress, The Governess The Turn of the Screw and Theodora.
Recent engagements include Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte for the the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy in Japan, Grange Festival and Opera Queensland, Countess Le nozze di Figaro at Garsington, Cleopatra Giulio Cesare and Theodora for Pinchgut Opera, Woglinde Das Rheingold, Marzelline Fidelio and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Simone Young, Violetta La traviata with The Grange Festival, Opera Australia and West Australian Opera, a US tour with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Messiah and War Requiem with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in Tasmania and Les Illuminations with Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Samantha features on the Resonus’ Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs recording with accompanist Dylan Perez.