Stephen Whitford is a British baritone, originally from Gloucestershire and now based in London. His professional engagements range from full-scale operas to intimate recitals with a repertoire encompassing music both very new and very old, as well as some things in between.

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Stephen is an Opera Prelude Young Artist and has appeared as a soloist in concerts and operas in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, China, the US, Canada and the UK. He has won prizes in the Hurn Court Competition, Patricia Routledge Prize and Courtney Kenny Award and was a finalist or semi-finalist in the Wigmore Song Competition, John Kerr Award and Charles Wood Prize. ​Recent engagements include:  Marcello in La Bohème (Aylesbury Opera), covering Don Giovanni (Hurn Court), recitals in the Aldeburgh Festivals of 2023 and 2024, Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Stroud Choral Society), Chorus for La Bohème (Longborough Festival Opera), Derrick in Planquette’s Rip van Winkle (Gothic Opera) and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (Dean Close Choral Society). In 2022, I created the role of Kerel in a new opera by Daniel Linton-France in Schönbrunner Schloßtheater with the Beethoven Philharmonie.

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I am an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and I have studied at King’s College, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music, London and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. I am continuing my studies with Sophie Grimmer.​ For details of upcoming performances, click here; for a complete repertoire list, please get in touch here.