The baritone David Stout studied with Rudolf Piernay on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, receiving the Principal’s Prize. He has sung such roles as Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Ping (Turandot), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Konrad Nachtigall (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Schaunard (La bohème), Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin), Nikita (Weinberg’s Das Portrait), Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Robin Oakapple (Ruddigore), Baron Douphol (La traviata), and Roucher (Andrea Chénier) at distinguished venues including The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera North, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Teatro Massimo, Palermo, and the Bregenzer Festspiele. In concert he has sung Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Sir Colin Davis, Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Hallé, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at the Royal Festival Hall, Verdi’s Requiem in Hereford Cathedral, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Three Choirs Festival, and the part of Christ in the St Matthew Passion at the St Endellion Festivals. In recital David Stout has performed lieder with Iain Burnside for BBC Radio 3 and at the Oxford Lieder Festival and London Song Festival. His recent acclaimed discography includes the NMC Songbook with Iain Burnside and recordings of Die Schöpfung, with musicians from New College, Oxford, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, as arranged by Schoenberg.