Claire Pendleton

Voice Type :
Soprano

Mobile Number : 07736 070040

E-mail Address :
clairependleton@ntlworld.com

CLAIRE PENDLETON studied at UCL/Birkbeck College, where she received distinction in Opera Performance and was awarded an Ottakar Kraus Memorial Scholarship. She then gained a Postgraduate Diploma at Trinity College of Music, studying with Wendy Eathorne & Geoffrey Pratley; winning several scholarships including the Ricordi Opera Prize and Beatrice Taylor Memorial Scholarship.

Whilst at college Claire sang as Madame Lidoine Dialogue of the Carmelites, at Spitalfields Market Opera conducted by Andrea Quinn and received critical acclaim for the British fully staged premiere with orchestra, in the title role of Barber’s Vanessa, at the Bloomsbury Theatre conducted by Gregory Rose.

Since leaving college, operatic roles have included Tetka cover Jenufa and Giulia cover Gondoliers, Lakme soprano, Vendor & Young Woman Kismet for English National Opera, Mimi & Musetta Boheme for ENO’s Baylis Programme and Mabel & Gianetta for ENO Friends evening, Anna Bolena for Swansea City Opera, Rusalka for ‘I Maestri’ and Opera Box, First Lady Magic Flute, for Opera Project and Opera à la Carte, Helmwige cover Die Walküre for Northern Wagner Orchestra, Aminta Schweigsame Frau for Garsington Opera Educational Project, Anna Nabucco at Blackheath Concert Halls, Mimi La Boheme, Countess Almaviva Marriage of Figaro, Michaela Carmen and Queen of The Night Magic Flute. Gilbert & Sullivan roles include Yum-Yum, Rose Maybud, Celia, Gianetta and Fiametta along with Frasquita Carmen, Madame Silberklang (Schauspieldirektor) and High Priestess Aida.

Claire has performed in many UK venues: Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. John’s, Smith Square, St. Martin-In-The-Fields, Southwark Cathedral, Royal Naval Chapel and the Fairfield Halls. Her TV credits include Classical Brit Awards, BBC’s ‘Live at the London Palladium’, Children in Need, Parkinson, with Luciano Pavarotti, Songs of Praise and has sung in the House of Commons and at the HM Tower of London. She has regularly broadcast for BBC Radio.

Claire has recorded the role of Blush of Morning, in Arthur Sullivan’s Rose of Persia,with the Hanover Band, which is now released on the CPO label. She has also recorded for Chandos, BBC television and BBC Music Magazine.

Claire’s work has taken her further afield; to France, Netherlands, Italy and South Africa. She sang under the baton of Richard Hickox, at the 2000 Spoleto Opera Festival in Umbria, in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Honeggar, Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, Rachmaninov Vespers and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung. Whilst there, she sang at Gian Carlo Menotti’s 90th birthday celebrations. She has performed in a play for opera lovers, about the life of Jenny Lind, ‘Swedish Nightingale’ for Dorset Opera accompanied by Chris Squires from Hamburg Opera.

Claire’s oratorio experience includes Handel’s Messiah, most notably in the presence of HRH Princess Royal, at Greenwich Naval Chapel, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with Bardi Orchestra in Leicester and with the Oxford Philomusica, at the Sheldonian Theatre, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, with the Wolsey Orchestra, Bach Cantata 124, at Guildford Cathedral, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the West Sussex Philarmonic, Mozart’s Requiem with Oxford Philomusica at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, Haydn’s Creation, Brahm’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Haydn’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and most recently Bach Mass in B Minor at St John’s Smith Square with the Brooke Street Band, under Joseph Cullen.

Claire studies with the distinguished soprano Marie McLaughlin.

Future engagements include Britten’s War Requiem, Strauss Four Last Songs,and a series of galas and recitals throughout the UK.