Claire Hawkes
Claire Hawkes won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study clarinet and piano in 1997. As a soloist, she won the RCM and Fanny Hughes Clarinet Prizes and the prestigious Thurston Competition. Claire was awarded an ATCL Diploma in Solo Piano in 2001. With awards from the Parnell and Anthony Saltmarsh Trusts, Claire was made a Junior Fellow at the RCM from 2004-2006 and was visiting Wind Chamber Coach at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from 2006 - 2008. Claire is currently Director of Music at Leweston School, Sherborne.
Claire represented the UK at CHOGM's People's Forum in Uganda, in November, 2007 (The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting). She spent a further six months working as a volunteer at Kampala Music School, giving fund-raising concerts, setting up a wind department and teaching clarinet. In January 2008 Claire gave a recital tour in Ghana, performing in Accra and Cape Coast in venues such as the British Council and National Theatre. She also performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana and made two television appearances. In 2009 she became a Trustee of Friends of KMS and currently works to fund-raise and co-ordinates volunteer visits.
Other concerto performances include works by Mozart and Pleyel in the UK and France and with Duo Armande, the Bruch Concerto. Following the release of their CD 'Musical Mosaics', recent chamber music highlights with Duo Armande include the EMI More Music Summer Festival, National Gallery and recitals in Worcester, Herefordshire and Berkshire. Later this year they give a concert tour in Corfu.
As an orchestral musician Claire has recently played and sang in the St Endellion Festivals and performed for the new BBC documentary, 'Parry and his Music' directed by John Bridcut for broadcast in 2011. Other orchestral work includes Minehead Festival, Southern Sinfonia, LPO, Nash Ensemble, Bath Philharmonic, Dionysus Opera Orchestra, Hampstead Garden Opera, Sweelinck Ensemble and North London Chorus.
Claire specialises in historical clarinets and in 2007 was awarded a Mastere de Pratique de l'orchestre Classique et Romantique Formation Supèrieure from the Abbaye aux Dames centre for historical studies and Poitiers University. Since she has played with the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, based in Saintes, and has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as part of the Anne and Peter Law scheme, as well as the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Fiori Musicali, COREAM and has recently toured to Barcelona and Verona with the Clarino Ensemble (historical clarinets and basset horns) as well as performing in London venues. The Clarino Ensemble have recently given a mini tour of Devon and look forward to performing in Hertford and Sherborne later in the year.
Claire represented the UK at CHOGM's People's Forum in Uganda, in November, 2007 (The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting). She spent a further six months working as a volunteer at Kampala Music School, giving fund-raising concerts, setting up a wind department and teaching clarinet. In January 2008 Claire gave a recital tour in Ghana, performing in Accra and Cape Coast in venues such as the British Council and National Theatre. She also performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana and made two television appearances. In 2009 she became a Trustee of Friends of KMS and currently works to fund-raise and co-ordinates volunteer visits.
Other concerto performances include works by Mozart and Pleyel in the UK and France and with Duo Armande, the Bruch Concerto. Following the release of their CD 'Musical Mosaics', recent chamber music highlights with Duo Armande include the EMI More Music Summer Festival, National Gallery and recitals in Worcester, Herefordshire and Berkshire. Later this year they give a concert tour in Corfu.
As an orchestral musician Claire has recently played and sang in the St Endellion Festivals and performed for the new BBC documentary, 'Parry and his Music' directed by John Bridcut for broadcast in 2011. Other orchestral work includes Minehead Festival, Southern Sinfonia, LPO, Nash Ensemble, Bath Philharmonic, Dionysus Opera Orchestra, Hampstead Garden Opera, Sweelinck Ensemble and North London Chorus.
Claire specialises in historical clarinets and in 2007 was awarded a Mastere de Pratique de l'orchestre Classique et Romantique Formation Supèrieure from the Abbaye aux Dames centre for historical studies and Poitiers University. Since she has played with the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, based in Saintes, and has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as part of the Anne and Peter Law scheme, as well as the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Fiori Musicali, COREAM and has recently toured to Barcelona and Verona with the Clarino Ensemble (historical clarinets and basset horns) as well as performing in London venues. The Clarino Ensemble have recently given a mini tour of Devon and look forward to performing in Hertford and Sherborne later in the year.
