About
Claire performs regularly across the UK as a soloist in concert and recital. Upcoming engagements include recitals at the National Centre for Early Music and London Handel Festival, as well as ensemble projects with the Academy of Ancient Music, Polyphony and the Monteverdi Choir. Recent highlights include singing the role La Musique in Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles with the Academy of Ancient Music at the London International Festival of Early Music and joining The Gabrieli Consort as soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria at Portsmouth Cathedral. Further concert repertoire include Bach’s Cantata BWV 202 and Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen, Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, Poulenc Gloria, Brahms Requiem, Macdowall Magnificat, as well as Mozart Requiem, Exultate Jubilate and Mass in C Minor.
As an ensemble singer Claire works regularly with the leading baroque ensembles and orchestras across Europe including The Monteverdi Choir, The Choir of the OAE, Constellation Choir and Orchestras, The Marian Consort, The Gabrieli Consort, The Academy of Ancient Music, Irish Baroque, Polyphony, The English Concert, Figure Ensemble 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.
Claire is co-director of baroque ensemble The Portrait Players with whom she performs regularly at festivals and venues across the UK, such as the London Handel Festival, Buxton International Music Festival, Stoller Hall and St. George’s, Bristol. Claire made her Oxford Song Festival debut in 2019, returning in 2021 and again in 2024 to perform Yvonne Loriod’s Grains de Cendre for Soprano, Flute and Piano in the Holywell Music Room.
On the operatic stage, Claire has worked with companies including the National Gilbert and Sullivan Company, Opera Holland Park, The Grange Festival and Nevill Holt Opera. Roles include 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.
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).
