Christopher Clark was born in Wellington, New Zealand and trained at the Royal Northern College of Music.
He is Founder and Artistic Director of The Jupiter Orchestra and Music Director of Central London Orchestra. Based in London, his repertoire spans orchestral music, opera and contemporary works, with an emphasis on music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Clark works with distinguished musicians from around the world and maintains a strong commitment to exceptional emerging artists. He launched The Jupiter Orchestra in March 2026 at Gasholders in King’s Cross, London, with a programme including Grieg’s Holberg Suite and John Adams’s Shaker Loops.
With Jupiter, Clark is developing an annual programme of three principal orchestral projects, bringing established professionals and exceptional emerging musicians together in concertos, symphonies and works by living composers. Upcoming programmes will continue celebrating the violin concerto, with works by Khachaturian, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Barber and Walton, and soloists including Igor Yuzefovich, Julian Azkoul, Adriana Bec, Matteo Hager and Charlie Lovell-Jones. A studio recording of Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto is planned for 2027.
He opened his tenure at Central London Orchestra with a programme including Salina Fisher’s Murmuring Light, and has championed music by New Zealand composers including Fisher and Douglas Lilburn. This season, he leads the orchestra in Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Sibelius’s Second Symphony, alongside Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with soloists from the Royal Academy of Music.
Clark has worked with the Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, New Zealand Opera and Opera North. His operatic work includes productions of Madama Butterfly with New Zealand Opera; Faust, La voix humaine and Dido and Aeneas with Opera North; and Der Rosenkavalier, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La bohème and Don Giovanni in New Zealand and Czechia.
He has recorded Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with an orchestra led by Igor Yuzefovich. With The Latitude Ensemble, he conducted the world premiere of Alan Williams’s Healing Tales, marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the NHS, in a programme alongside Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale.
“In Christopher Clark
. . .we may have found the next Carlo Maria Giulini.”- Patron of The Jupiter Orchestra