Claire Galloway
Soprano
About
The
Artist
Scottish-American soprano Claire Galloway’s theatricality covers the gamut of “palpable pain” and “splendid, funny moments” (B.I.T.R.). This season she is a featured artist with Baltimore Musicales, co-leads and performs in 3340 Recital's Somatic Song Institute, presents recitals around the East Coast, and will premiere two roles in Arnold Saltzman’s Geniza: Hidden Fragments with Chesapeake Symphony in October.
A 2022 Brown Loranger Fellow at Songfest, Fellow at the Nordic Song Festival in Trollhättan, Sweden, and 2021 Fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Ms. Galloway is known for her innovative recital programing with a special interest in French and Nordic repertoire as well as commissioning new works for voice and chamber ensemble.
Having performed with Lidal North in Oslo, Saltworks Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, Savannah Opera, Bel Cantanti Opera, and Stillpointe Theatre, she has presented operatic roles by Mozart, Poulenc, Massenet, and Bernstein, as well as premiered roles in works by Steven Crino, Jonathan Dove, and Frances Pollock. She is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland USA where she is a professor of diction and repertoire courses at the Peabody Conservatory.
Friday, January 13th, 2023 | 7:00 pm ET
SongSLAM - Team #11
Ms. Galloway premieres a song by composer Erik Franklin with Edward Rothmel at the piano entitled "Climbing" from Amy Lowell's Verses for Children.
The Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM is a unique and energizing community event for composer/performer teams to premiere new art songs and compete for cash prizes.
15 teams will presents a new song of no more than 5 minutes for voice and piano, in any language, for the voting audience, who—in the poetry slam tradition—will then vote on their favorites and award prize money to the winning competitors!
Additionally, last year's songSLAM commission prize winner Shawn Chang will have his new cycle 'Us Now' premiered during the event performed by tenor Daniel McGrew with the Composer at the Piano.
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
Sunday, January 29th, 2023 | 3:30 pm ET
The Sound of Solace
Ms. Galloway returns to the Baltimore Musicales concert series to perform a set by Swedish composer Gunnar de Frumerie as well as some beautiful ensemble pieces.
Inter-Faith Chapel
3680 S. Leisure World Blvd., Silver Spring, MD
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 | 4:00 pm ET
Mathilde Roth Schlechter/Miriam - Geniza: Hidden Fragments
Ms. Galloway joins the Chesapeake Orchestra in a reprise of Arnold Saltzman's new opera about the discovery of fragmented documents surrounding Jewish and Egyptian life. The opera will be presented in concert format under the baton of Jeffrey Silberschlag.
Free entry thanks to generous funding through grants
Charles E. Smith Sanctuary, Adas Israel Congregation
2850 Quebec Street NW, Washington, DC
Saturday, January 7th, 2023 | 11am & 2 pm PT
Somatic Song Institute
Ms. Galloway co-leads and performs with 3340 Recital Series's inaugural Somatic Song Institute which focuses on body, breath, mind, and energy connection in coordination with singing. On the recitals she will perform two of the pieces from Grieg's cycle Haugtussa and Mi chiamano Mimì from Puccini's La Bohème alongside pianist Cheryl Lin Fielding.
Women's Club of Laguna Beach
286 St. Ann's Drive, Laguna Beach, CA
Sunday, December 18th, 2022 | 3:30 pm ET
Songs of Celebration
Ms. Galloway joins Baltimore Musicales for a concert of holiday favorites and lesser known works in French by Bemberg and Hahn and some Ladino folk arrangements.
Woodbrook Baptist Church, Towson, MD
Sunday, December 4th, 2022 | 6:00 pm ET
Chorus - Roberto Devereux
Ms. Galloway joins Washington Concert Opera for a concert performance of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux with Antony Walker at the podium.
Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC
Sunday, November 13th, 2022 | 4:30 pm ET
Songs of Farewell - Pre-Evensong Recital
Ms. Galloway and John Henderson reunite to perform Songs of Farewell with selections by Korngold, Lieberson, and Poulenc. Free & open to the public.
Saint Davids Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD
Sunday, November 6th, 2022 | 4:00 pm ET
Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 | 3:30 pm ET
The Sound of Solace
Ms. Galloway returns to the Baltimore Musicales concert series to perform a set by Swedish composer Gunnar de Frumerie as well as some ensemble pieces
Grace United Methodist Church, Baltimore, MDD
Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem
Ms. Galloway performs the soprano solos in Johannes Brahms's masterwork "A German Requiem" alongside the Emmanuel Choir with Christian Lane conducting.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, October 13th, 2022 | 7:30 pm ET
Mathilde Roth Schlechter/Miriam - Geniza: Hidden Fragments (premiere)
Ms. Galloway joins the Chesapeake Orchestra in a premiere of Arnold Saltzman's new opera about the discovery of fragmented documents surrounding Jewish and Egyptian life. The opera will be presented in concert format under the baton of Jeffrey Silberschlag.
Theater of the Arts, Washington, DC
August 2022
Nordic Song Festival
Ms. Galloway joins the Nordic Song Festival Masterclass in Trollhättan, Sweden. She performed works in Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic - featuring a work by composer-in-residence, Helgi Ingvarsson.
June 2022
Songfest - Brown Loranger Fellow
Ms. Galloway joined Songfest at their new home at the San Francisco Conservatory as a Brown Loranger Fellow and Italian Diction/German Vocal Literature instructor. She performed a set of Ladino pieces by Hemsi, on composer forums with Libby Larsen, Jake Hegggie, David Conte, and Sheila Silver, two works by Ukrainian composer Lysenko, and on the Schubert program curated by Graham Johnson.
Sunday, February 6th, 2022 | 4 pm ET
Bach's B Minor Mass
Ms. Galloway joins Bach in Baltimore to sing Soprano II and Alto in Bach's magnificent work. Rescheduled from May 2020.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 | 6 pm ET
Third Tuesdays at Six
Ms. Galloway joins Emmanuel Episcopals's Third Tuesdays at Six series performing Korngold and Poulenc with John Henderson
Reviews
DC Theatre Scene
Susan Galbraith
Claire Galloway Weber as Dinah, the wife, delivered some beautiful arias. I was deeply moved by the dream she relates to her psychiatrist on the couch, in this production inventively draped as a chanteuse over the top of the piano. 'I was standing in the garden' was filled with the inner longing of this woman. I also liked the risks she took in the wild 'Trouble in Tahiti'...She rips into the song with abandon, moving from comic dismissal of movie musicals as they were written to getting caught up in the plot of one then tearing with fury into the exotic singing-dancing island girls 'ahaahhaahha' complete with phony hula dancing.
Baltimore Independent Theatre Review
Dinah, played by Claire Galloway Weber, is also an outstanding songbird soprano who holds her own against Tomaszewski. Her pain is palpable, and her courage to try and find help seems a thin veiled reflection on deflection. She has her own splendid funny moment performing 'Island Magic,' while flouncing between a disgusted movie patron and a back up dancer for the Polynesian Dance Troupe.
Theatre Bloom
Mike Zellhofer
Galloway Weber's clear, dulcet voice draws you into her struggle between having the perfect looking suburban home and what appears to be an alluring marriage, and the desire for a relationship with the man she loves. She conveys this perfectly in her scene with her psychiatrist and as she recounts her viewing of the South Sea romance Trouble in Tahiti.
Semi-Finalist
Mlle. Jouvenot (Cover)
Soprano - Chorus
Second Prize
Fellow
Fiordiligi
Fellow
Semi-Finalist
Semi-Finalist
Blanche de la Force
Blanche de la Force
Vitellia
Suzel (cover)
Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
Lakmé (Delibes)
International Clara Schumann Competition
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Ravinia Steans Music Institute
James Toland Vocal Arts Competition
Partners for the Arts Competition
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc)
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc)
La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni)
Joy in Singing Competition
Fall 2022
Baltimore Concert Opera
April 2022
Washington Concert Opera
May 2022
January 2022
Ravinia Festival
August 2021
Opera NexGen
March 2021
Online
August 2020
Online
May 2020
Alexandria, VA
October 2019
Savannah Opera
August 2019
Saltworks Opera
July 2019
Lidal North - Oslo
July 2019
Baltimore Concert Opera
November 2018
Sommersang, Carl Nielsen Vänersborg Theater Vänersborg, Sweden
The Force of Destiny Baltimore Musicales with curation by Claire Galloway & The Arthur Friedheim Library George Peabody Library, Baltimore
Ariettes souvenues set with Javier Arrebola Ravinia, IL
Performing with Saffron Chung New York, NY
Lidal North Oslo, Norway
Saltworks Opera with tenor Matthew Greenblatt Cape Charles, VA
Get In Touch
Contact
Wade Artist Management
Martha Wade
(917) 509-6648
Claire Galloway
clairegallowaysoprano@gmail.com
Baltimore, Maryland, USA