Ben Vonberg-Clark is a conductor and tenor and campaigner for choral music education. He conducts the University of Essex choir and is Director of Music at St. John the Divine Kennington. With the UoEC, he has conducted the London Mozart Players, the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment and the City of London Sinfonia. Other work as a conductor has seen him conduct in the Cadogan Hall and Albert Hall, alongside conducting the choirs of Selwyn and John’s colleges in Cambridge.

His work for St. John the Divine Kennington is part of a vibrant social mission to provide a choral education to those who would not normally have access to it. He has enabled choristers to gain places at Westminster Abbey, King’s College Cambridge and the Chapel Royal on full secondary school bursaries, and assisted numerous other pupils to gain music scholarships to their secondary schools in South London.  Ben studied in Durham, Vienna and London, and is now taught by Nicky Spence. Known for singing 20th century song, Ben has a close relationship with Britten Pears, and performs and conducts regularly there. In June 2023 he performed in John Bridcut’s new film on Michael Tippett on the BBC. He performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn with BBC young artist Annmarie Federle. Ben has also sung with the Sixteen, Stile Antico, the Eric Whitacre Singers, the BBC Singers, Polyphony and La Nuova Musica. He conducts the choirs of St. John the Divine in Kennington, South London, alongside the London Youth Boys’ choir and the recently formed Wivenhoe Youth Choir. His book “Introducing Singing” was published in 2023 by Trinity College London.