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Stephen Clarke was born in 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Trinity College, where he met and became friends with John Stratton (1931-2000). Clarke studied law, in addition to taking voice lessons with Howell Glynn at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Elizabeth Benson Guy and her mother-in-law Greta Kraus at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music; and Gladys Whitehead at the Hamilton Conservatory. In 1978, he stopped appearing in professional music performances to focus on his career as a lawyer. However, music continued to be an important part of his life. Clarke and Stratton remained friends throughout their lives, and Stratton made Clarke his estate trustee.
After Stratton's death in 2000, Clarke continued to contribute to Stratton's record collection, and obtained thousands of digital audio files from Ward Marston and from the Sir Paul Getty collection.
Clarke is currently the chair-person for Historic Masters Ltd. He regularly lectures on the Stratton-Clarke collection and historic vocal recordings for artists of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and students at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.
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Janneka Guise, James Mason, Rebecca Shaw, Bryan Martin, “Acquiring, preserving, and exhibiting a comprehensive collection of opera recordings from the early- to mid-twentieth century,” panel presentation, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference, Montreal, Quebec (May 2020).