Clare McCaldin mezzo soprano

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Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 9:43pm

An outstanding mezzo-soprano will be taking centre stage at the second of Concerts in the West's 2017 concert series tour.

Clare McCaldin has a powerful creative influence and tremendous presence both on the opera stage and concert platform, which she will be demonstrating in full at performances in Lower Pulworthy (Devon), Bridport and Ilminster in March 2017.

Clare's diverse career encompasses a busy concert schedule and she has worked with pianists such as Libby Burgess, Iain Burnside, Andrew West and Paul Turner. She is committed to chamber music collaborations and has undertaken commissions with the Brodsky Quartet, Walton's Facade, La Rejouissance and Le Page Ensemble.

In operatic repertoire she has sung a wide range of parts, including Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Meg Page (Falstaff), Oreste (La Belle Helene) and Dorabella Orsze (Hary Janos). In concert, Clare has sung with the Academy of Ancient Music, Philharmonia Orchestra, Die Kölner Akademie, the Northern Sinfonia, the choir of King’s College, The Three Choirs Festival, Barokksolistene, the Orchestra of the Golden Age and the Northern Chamber Orchestra. She made her solo debut at the 2012 BBC Proms in Debussy’s Martyrdom of St Sebastian with the BBCSO/Knussen, which also opened the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival.

Clare will be accompanied by Libby Burgess, a pianist, who is dedicated to song and chamber music. Libby collaborates regularly with some of the finest singers and instrumentalists of her generation and is Artistic Director of New Paths, a major festival of concerts and education events, launched in April 2016 in Yorkshire. Libby was an organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, where she took a first in music. She has won numerous prizes, as well as the DipRAM for her postgraduate accompaniment studies at the Royal College of Music.

Commenting on Clare McCaldin's forthcoming concerts, Catherine Maddocks (Hodgson), founder and director of Concerts in the West, said:

"Clare is a remarkable and elegant performer, who not only sings beautifully, but also draws on her impressive range of dramatic abilities to deliver superbly accomplished performances. Her ability to draw audiences into the atmosphere and emotion of each song is exceptional and her natural ringing voice is both controlled and accurate, demonstrating a tremendous range of pitch.

"Clare also produces her own solo shows, Haydn’s London Ladies and Vivienne and is currently developing The Ubiquitous Woman, a new chamber opera by Martin Ward and Di Sherlock. She was also responsible for fund-raising and overseeing the first blue plaque commemorating Joseph Haydn’s important stays in London, unveiled in March 2015."

Musical Programme - Clare McCaldin:
Evening Recital programme:
Finzi - To a poet
Vaughan Williams - The Sky Above The Roof  
Faure - Prison
Faure - Trois Mélodies de Venise
Head - Three Songs of Venice
Britten - French and English Folk Songs
Il est quelqu’un sur terre, Eho! Eho!, Salley Gardens, Oliver Cromwell
John Ireland - In A May Morning from Sarnia (piano solo)
Dominic Muldowney - In Paris with You
David Owen Norris - Big Ben Blues
Poulenc - Les Chemins de l’amour
Cole Porter - C’est Magnifique
Richard Rodney Bennett - The History of the Thé Dansant

Performance and Box Office Details for Clare McCaldin:

Thursday 16 March 2017 7.30pm, Lower Pulworthy, Highampton, Hatherleigh, Devon EX21 5LQ. Box Office: 01837 810940 (Salar Gallery, 18/20 Bridge Street, Hatherleigh EX20 3HY. 9am-5pm) Tickets: £15. Interval drinks, disabled access. Lower Pulworthy is an old rural farmhouse, approximately two miles out of Hatherleigh on the A3072. Take a right turn which is signposted to Legge Fisheries. Follow the road up the hill and take the right fork, which will lead you down a bumpy drive. You will see gate posts ahead of you and you will have arrived. There are several farm buildings, but they are no longer in use. The concert is in the house. Please park where you can find a space.
 

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Venue

Lower Pulworthy, Highampton, Hatherleigh

Event Date

Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 7:30pm

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