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The German baritone, Julian Dominique Clement, began his singing career with the Chorknaben Uetersen. Additionally, he received cello and piano lessons for many years. He already gained solo experience as a boy soprano, for example, in the leading role of the children’s opera Die drei Rätsel by Detlev Glanert as well as by singing boy parts in church concerts. As a baritone, he studied with Professor Jörn Dopfer (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg) for several years. After beginning medical studies, he followed his passion and applied for vocal studies. Since the fall of 2017, he has been studying with Roland Schubert at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig.
As a freelance concert soloist, Julian Clement has sung at the Bachfest Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Leipzig, among other venues, most recently with the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig; and subsequently participated in CD recordings with works of the Baroque and the choral symphonies. His passion for the operatic genre solidified in 2020 with the role of the Count in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in the opera project operationderkünste. Guest contracts have taken him to major opera houses such as the Leipzig Opera, Halle Opera, Rudolstadt Theater and Theater Erfurt. He has worked with the conductors Ulf Schirmer, Matthias Foremny, and Andreas Reize; and the stage director Barbora Horáková. Important roles have included Papageno in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Demetrius in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Momus in Rameau's Platée. He has recorded George Frideric Handel's Messiah (Early Version 1741) with Felix Koch & Neumeyer Consort (Rondeau Productions). He has been a member of the TONALi Bühnenakademie since 2023.
In addition to his operatic and concert activities, the Lied has been a passion of Julian Clement for many years. In recitals, he explores new timbres and narrative styles in music with a wide variety of programs. He found important inspiration for Lied and opera in his work with Thomas Hampson, Christoph Prégardien, and Alexander Schmalcz. |
