Christopher Clark is a New Zealand-born conductor and Artistic Director of The Jupiter Orchestra. He has conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and Berlin Sinfonietta, and has held assistant conducting roles with Orchestra Wellington, New Zealand Opera and Opera North.

A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, the University of British Columbia and the New Zealand School of Music, Christopher studied conducting with Colin Metters, Martyn Brabbins, Jac van Steen and Mark Heron. He was awarded the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Arts Excellence Award for international conducting studies and the Pettman DARE International Performance Scholarship for emerging leaders in opera.

His operatic experience includes assistant conducting roles with New Zealand Opera on Madama Butterfly and with Opera North on Faust, La voix humaine and Dido and Aeneas, alongside work on Der Rosenkavalier, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La bohème and Don Giovanni.

Christopher has recorded Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Igor Yuzefovich, Leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and conducted the world premiere of Alan Williams’s work marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS, paired with Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. He has championed music by New Zealand composers including Salina Fisher and Douglas Lilburn, and works regularly with emerging soloists, including musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

As Artistic Director of The Jupiter Orchestra, Christopher is developing a new orchestral platform in London, bringing together high-level performance, spatial thinking and architecturally responsive programming. In 2026 his work includes further projects with The Jupiter Orchestra and new operatic collaborations in the UK and Europe.