About Sophie

Praised for her "beautiful story telling" and "touching performances", Sophie Clarke has entered the classical music industry with thousands of loyal listeners and a line of successful performances. She has given solo performances in concert venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall and St. George’s Hanover Square in London’s West End. For the last three years she has been charming audiences all over the UK and Ireland with London Concertante Orchestra on their West End Musicals Tour.

For summer 2025, Sophie has gone on to perform with the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company at Buxton Opera House for the 2025 G&S Festival and has also performed various solo G&S recitals including at Gilbert’s former home, Grim’s Dyke. For the 2025/2026 season, Sophie will be a Guest Artist for various cruise lines performing in Sydney, New Zealand, Brazil and various European locations.

In addition to a busy stage career, Sophie’s videos and recordings have been played over 2.5 million times across 120 different countries. She has been featured on various UK, European and US Radio Stations including BBC and iHeartRadio and has taken interviews in both English and Spanish. Her social media presence is ever growing with her selection of music videos, concert footage, behind the scenes and music history videos.

Sophie works extensively with classical guitarist Ravi Nathwani in a duo called Duo Cantelina. The pair are 2025 Young Artists for the International Guitar Foundation performing recitals in venues including Kings Place, London and Swansea Grand Theatre. Click the link to see more about Duo Cantelina.

 In July 2024, Sophie graduated with Distinction from a Master of Music and Postgraduate Diploma in Classical Singing and Opera at The Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Yvonne Howard and Louise Winter. She was the first student at the RNCM to be sponsored by the international Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Sophie’s principal sponsor throughout her time at the RNCM is Peter Snook and she was also kindly sponsored by the Hargreaves and Ball Scholarship and Ms J Hodge. 

Sophie was the RNCM Song Cycle Competition Winner 2023 and the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition Winner 2022, for which she was subsequently invited to perform as part of the London Song Festival. Recent highlights include performing the role of The Witch in Sondheim's Into The Woods for the RNCM 50 Year Anniversary, being the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Nottingham’s Albert Hall and performing as the Mezzo-Soprano Soloist in Bernstein’s Mass firstly at The Royal Festival Hall in London, conducted by Marin Alsop, and then at Bridgewater Hall for the Manchester Premiere, conducted by Clark Rundell. In June of 2023, Sophie was delighted to make her Wigmore Hall debut singing works by composer Larry Goves to celebrate the RNCM 50 Year Anniversary. In Opera, she played the role of Lyel in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden for the RNCM Winter Opera 2023 and in 2024 she created the role of the Philosopher in the world premiere of Bicarregui’s new opera Capsule. In summer 2023, Sophie was a Young Artist for Buxton International Festival performing as a member of the chorus in Bellini's La Sonnambula.