Konrad Jarnot

Konrad Jarnot (born 1972) is an English baritone who works in opera and oratorio and is a notable performer of Lieder. He is a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule.

Born at Brighton, Jarnot studied voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, with Rudolf Piernay, and was awarded the school's Gold Medal. He also took masterclasses at London's Wigmore Hall and at Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling.

In April 1996 he won a Kathleen Ferrier Award, the Decca Prize. Since 1998 he has completed his musical training with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

The singer came to international attention in 2000, when he won the First Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Since then he has been invited to sing at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, the Benaroya Hall, Seattle, the Wigmore Hall, London, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and many other major venues. He has appeared at dozens of festivals, such as the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

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