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London born gambist
Claire
Bracher, completed her undergraduate studies with Hille Perl in Bremen
Germany, and her postgraduate studies with Richard Boothby and Reiko
Ichise at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London. Claire's
postgraduate studies were supported
by a Douglas
& Hilda
Simmonds Study Award and a Hester Laverne Award. At
the RCM, Claire received the
'McKenna Baroque Prize'. With her
ensemble 'Amaranthos', she reached
the
final of The York Early Music Young
Artists Competition 2007, and with members of Amaranthos won
first prize at the 2008 Fenton House
Chamber
Music Competition. Claire
now teaches the RCM viol consorts, and in 2007 organised the first
'International Festival of Viols', held at
The Royal College of Music. Claire
has performed with many renowned early music specialists, including;
Ton Koopman, Julian Podger, Hille Perl, Harry van der Kamp, Harold
Vogel
and Peter Holtslag. Claire regularly
performs with many ensembles including Weser Renaissance, Sirius
Viols, Amaranthos, ORLANDOviols and Carpe
CORdas. Claire has performed at the Innsbruck
(Austria) Early Music Festival, the Stockholm (Sweden) Early Music
Festival, the Vaanta (Finland) Early Music Festival, the Utrecht
(Holland) Early Music Fringe Festival, the Queen Elizabeth Hall
(London), the st. Martin in the Fields Early Music Festival (England)
and in Carnegie Hall (New York) under the baton of Ton
Koopman. Claire
is currently an active soloist and chamber musician, regularly
performing in earlymusic concerts, festivals and radiobradcasts in and
around
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