Florian Störtz

German bass-baritone Florian Störtz announced his arrival on the European concert scene with victories at the 2023 International Handel Singing Competition as well as the 2023 Helmut Deutsch Song Competition. Together with pianist Mark Rogers he also took the Prix de mélodie at the 2023 Lili et Nadia Boulanger competition in Paris and won the Young Artists Platform at the International Song Festival Zeist (NL) 2024.

Florian's 25-26 season includes Bach's Matthäuspassion with Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herrweghe as well as Handel's Alceste with the group and Sébastien Daucé; Solomon with the OAE under John Butt and Bach with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Dinis Sousa. He will make his opera début in L’Orfeo at Glyndebourne is giving recitals at the Newbury Festival and Wigmore Hall. His debut recording of German Romantic song will be published by Delphian in 2026.

The past season saw him singing Bach and Charpentier with the Monteverdi Choir under Christophe Rousset, Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under Paul McCreesh and a selection of Bach cantatas with the Constellation Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. His recording of Duruflé's Requiem with the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and Stephen Layton is released by Hyperion and was awarded a Diapason d'Or.

He has given recitals in Leeds with Graham Johnson, Zell am See with Helmut Deutsch, Cambridge with Malcolm Martineau, as well as a German song programme at Carnegie Hall with Renée Fleming’s SongStudio. Florian is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme and receives generous support from the City Music Foundation. Having enjoyed his upbringing in the vocal music environment around Trier Cathedral, Germany he is now based in London. As a trained physicist, Florian is passionate about the intersection of science and music.