A creative collaborator, in January 2023, Claire devised Handel’s Europe, a programme of Handel Cantatas and German Arias presented in a chamber format. Through this project, the trio The Portrait Players was formed. The ensemble brings 17th and 18th century music to modern audiences with engaging programmes informed by historical characters and performs regularly throughout the UK. You can find out more about The Portrait Players here. https://theportraitplayers.co.uk 

As an ensemble singer Claire’s recent work includes projects with many of the UK’s leading baroque ensembles including The Monteverdi Choir, The Choir of the OAE, The Academy of Ancient Music, Polyphony, The English Concert and Dunedin Consort. She has performed in major concert halls across Europe with conductors including John Eliot Gardiner, Laurence Cummings, John Wilson, Dinis Sousa, Peter Whelan and David Bates. Further ensemble work includes projects with The Gabrieli Consort (Paul McCreesh), Britten Sinfonia Voices (Eamon Dougan) and Figure Ensemble (Freddie Waxman).

In the world of opera Claire has worked with companies including the National Gilbert and Sullivan Company, Opera Holland Park, The Grange Festival and Nevill Holt Opera. Recent roles include La Musique (Les Plaisirs de Versailles) with the Academy of Ancient Music/London International Festival of Early Music, The Plaintiff (Trial by Jury) at the National Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton Opera House, Frantik (The Cunning Little Vixen) at Opera Holland Park, Belinda (Dido and Aenaes) at Overstrand Festival of Early Music, Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) cover at The Grange Festival, and Venus (Venus and Adonis) at the Royal Academy of Music.

On the concert platform, Claire made her solo debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by John Wilson in April 2023 and at Cadogan Hall in Bach’s B Minor Mass with Thames Philharmonic Choir. She performed Bach Cantatas as part of the Snape Maltings Proms 2019, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe and as a student, regularly performed in the Kohn Foundation/RAM Bach Cantata series. Further concert highlights include Poulenc Gloria, Brahms Requiem, Smyth Mass in D, Macdowall Magnificat, Haydn Nelson Mass as well as Mozart Exultate Jubilate and Mass in C Minor.

An instinctive linguist, Claire made her Oxford Song Festival debut with pianist Guy Murgatroyd in 2019, returning in 2021 and 2024. She has a growing interest in translation, both of song and opera, since her studies at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and regularly creates her own translations of songs and arias for concert programmes.

Claire was a City Music Foundation Artist 2022-2024, Monteverdi Apprentice 2023-2024, and a young artist with Opera Prelude 2021-2023. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music (MA Vocal Studies, DipRAM, LRAM), Durham University (BA French and Music), and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse (singing and piano accompaniment).

Claire was a semi-finalist in the recent International Handel Singing Competition at St. George’s Hanover Square and Concours Corneille International Baroque Competition in Rouen, France. She was a Britten Pears Young Artist for 2019, and a finalist in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform 2017. 

When not singing, Claire is an amateur triathlete and loves to swim in open (but not too cold) water.