Konrad Jarnot English baritone Country: Great Britain

Biography of Conrad Jarnot

Conrad Jarnot is an English operatic and concert baritone, renowned for his performances of romances. In addition, he is a faculty member at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany. Born in 1972 in Brighton, Jarnot studied vocal technique at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under Rudolf Piernay, where he was awarded the school's gold medal. He also attended masterclasses at London's Wigmore Hall, a leading concert venue specializing in chamber music, and studied with conductor Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart.

In April 1996, Jarnot won the Kathleen Ferrier Award at the prestigious London competition for young opera singers. Since 1998, he has studied vocal technique with renowned German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Jarnot gained international recognition in 2000 when he won first prize at the ARD International Music Competition, the largest international classical music competition in Germany held annually in Munich. Since then, he has been invited to perform at major concert venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Wigmore Hall in London, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and many more. He has appeared at numerous festivals, including the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Jarnot has collaborated with renowned conductors from around the world, including Ralf Gothóni, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jesús López-Cobos, Jonathan Nott, Andrew Parrott, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schreier, Pinchas Steinberg, Martin Turnovský, Marcello Viotti, Bruno Weil, and David Willcocks. Since 2009, Jarnot has been a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and has conducted masterclasses in Europe and Japan. One of his notable students is German tenor Ulrich Cordes.

In his opera repertoire, Jarnot has performed the role of Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas in London, the lead role in Eugene Onegin in Baden-Baden, Yeletzky in The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky in Glasgow, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Amfortas in Parsifal in Monte Carlo, Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte in Savonlinna, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande in Innsbruck, the Narrator in Die Legende von der schönen Lau by Gerhard Konzelmann in Blaubeuren, and Madhavia in Schubert's Sakontala in Bad Urach.

In 2006, he performed the role of Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Feldkirch Festival under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock. In 2007, Jarnot sang Bach's cantatas "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56" and "Ich habe genug, BWV 82" accompanied by the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Poppen.

Jarnot recorded Richard Strauss' songs, including the piano arrangement of the Four Last Songs, traditionally sung by sopranos, in 2005. In 2011, he performed Brahms' Liebesliederwalzer and Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder op. 138 at the Rheingau Musik Festival.