German bass-baritone Florian Störtz announced his arrival on the European concert scene with victories at 2023 International Handel Singing Competition and 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, Utrecht 2024. He is a Rising Star of the Enlightenment.

Recent engagements include Bach and Charpentier with the Monteverdi Choir under Christophe Rousset; Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Václav Luks and also with the OAE under Masaaki Suzuki; Handel’s Esther at the London Handel Festival with Laurence Cummings; Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under Paul McCreesh; Bach’s B minor Mass with The English Concert directed by Kristian Bezuidenhout and a European tour of the St Matthew Passion with the OAE under Jonathan Cohen.

Florian has recorded Duruflé’s Requiem with The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Stephen Layton and a debut recital album with pianist Aleksandra Myslek.

He has given recitals in Leeds with Graham Johnson, Zell am See with Helmut Deutch, and Carnegie Hall with Renée Fleming’s SongStudio, and French song recitals at Salle Cortot, Paris and Wigmore Hall.

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 grown up in the music environment around Trier Cathedral in Germany, he is now based in London. As a trained physicist Florian is passionate about the intersection of science and music.