Allan Clayton was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral before going up to St John’s College, Cambridge on a choral scholarship. After four years with St John’s, he began post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded an inaugural Sir Elton John Scholarship and the John Lewis Award. He also holds a Maidment Scholarship, administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, is the recipient of a Star Award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and enjoys the support of the Josephine Baker Trust.
On stage, Allan has performed the roles of Tamino, the title role Peter Grimes, Prologue/Quint (Turn of the Screw), and has taken part in concert performances of Death in Venice at the Festival and Bridgewater Halls. Most recently, he sang the title role Albert Herring in a new production by Lindy Hume at Snape Maltings, conducted by Paul Kildea and Belfiore in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera for Royal Academy Opera.
Recent concert performances include King Arthur (Purcell) in France with Florilegium, Bartok's Cantata Profana in Canterbury Cathedral, Britten’s Canticles at the Perth Arts Festival in Australia, and Michael Tippett’s tenor cantata Songs for Dov with Nicholas Cleobury. Other engagements have taken Allan to the Purcell Room, St Martin’s-in-the-Field, the Three Choirs Festival and the FA Cup Final at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
Future engagements include Madwoman (Curlew River) in Oxford, Tenor
Actor in Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera (RAO), concerts
with the CBSO, Britten’s War Requiem at the 2007 Perth IAF and
the Nocturne in Auckland. This season, he makes his Wigmore Hall debut
in performances with Graham Johnson and Angelika Kirchschlager. Allan
learns with David Lowe.