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Claire Galloway

Soprano

About

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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.

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Upcoming Performances

Sunday, May 7th, 2023  3:30 pm ET

Phenomenal Women

Ms. Galloway returns to the Baltimore Musicales concert series to perform a set by Poldowski of well known Verlaine texts as well as some beautiful ensemble pieces.

Grace Church
5407 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD

 

Friday, May 12th, 2023  7:30 pm ET

Händel's Messiah

Ms. Galloway joins the Emmanuel Choir to perform the entirety of Händel's masterwork.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
811 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

Friday, May 19th, through Sunday, May 21st, 2023 

Händel's Making Messiah

Ms. Galloway joins Andersen's Nightingale for their inaugural season in a re-imagination of Händel's Messiah.

Friday, May 19th at 6:30 pm ET
Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church
154 South Mill Road West Windsor Township, NJ

Saturday, May 20th at 4 pm ET 
& Sunday, May 21st at 4 pm  ET
Schenk Farmstead
50 Southfield Road West Windsor Township, NJ

Saturday, June 10th, 2023 | 9 am - 2:30 pm ET

The Somatic Singer

Ms. Galloway leads a workshop and masterclass focusing on body, breath, mind, and spirit connection for singers.

Workshop limited to 10: $35

Workshop + Masterclass participation: $50
Free to attend Masterclass

Emmanuel Episcopal Church Grand Hall
811 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, 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.

Charles E. Smith Sanctuary, Adas Israel Congregation
2850 Quebec Street NW, Washington, DC

 

Saturday, March 4th, 2022  |  6:00 pm ET

Chorus - Nabucco

Ms. Galloway joins Washington Concert Opera for a concert performance of Verdi's Nabucco with Antony Walker at the podium.
Lisner Auditorium,
 Washington, DC

 

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

 

Friday, January 13th, 2023  |  7:00 pm ET

2nd Place - SongSLAM - Team #11

Ms. Galloway premiered 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.

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY

 

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

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

 

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, 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.

Reviews

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

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Contact

Wade Artist Management

Martha Wade

(917) 509-6648

marthanwade@gmail.com

Claire Galloway 

clairegallowaysoprano@gmail.com

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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