Clara Mouriz Mezzo Soprano
Recipient of Wigmore Hall / INDEPENDENT OPERA Voice Fellowship 2009-2011 &
INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship 2008/9
Spanish born, Clara Mouriz, is rapidly establishing herself as one of the most exciting mezzo-sopranos of her generation. She was awarded the End of Studies Extraordinary Prize from the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid then settled in London and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music-Opera Course with an Outstanding Diploma. During her studentship she received the Vice-Principal's Award, the prestigious Richard Lewis Award, the Friends of the RAM Wigmore Award and the audience price in the Handel Competition.
Clara studied with Noelle Barker in the UK, Josephina Arregui in Spain, at the Accademia Rossiniana with Alberto Zedda, the Sir George Solti Academy with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the Cardiff International Academy of Singing with Dennis O’Neill and the Samling Foundation with Sir Thomas Allen.
She recently made a critically acclaimed debut as Rossini’s Cenerentola at Malmö Opera and sang the role of Piacere in Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno for Les Azuriales Opera, both productions directed by Alessandro Talevi. Other roles include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Sivigliaat Opera St. Moritz, La Marquesa Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for British Youth Opera,Tirinto in Händel´s Imeneo for the Cambridge Händel Opera Groupand she has appeared in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Rossini's La Cenerentola and Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Spanish Mozart Festival under Alberto Zedda.
Clara’s concert engagements include Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été under Alexander Shelley, Mozart’s Requiem under Daniel Harding, Falla’s El Amor Brujo under Thierry Fisher as well as Ravel's Schéhérezade, Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, Montsalvatge’s Canciones Negras and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony appearing at theCheltenham, Spitalfields and London Handel Festival, London Music Nights, Cadogan Hall, Padova’s Auditorium Pollini, New York’s Gilder Lehrman Hall and Tokyo Opera-city.
A committed recital singer, Clarais a Kirckman Concert Society Artist and made her debut in Wigmore Hall in 2007, returning in 2009. She has broadcast for BBC Radio 3, led workshops for the Wigmore Hall's Education Department in Latin and Spanish repertoire and recorded Turina's Poema en Forma de Canciones for the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle. Her first solo recital disc of Spanish songs has recently been released on the award winning record classical label Sonimage. In addition to her partnership with Joseph Middleton, Clara has performed in recitals alongside pianists Julius Drake, Alvarez Parejo and Miguel Zanetti, and guitarist Morgan Szymanski. Clara appears regularly in Europe and in the UK at venues that include Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Leeds Lieder+, the recital series of the Westminster School and Oxford Lieder Festival.
Clara has been distinguished with an Independent Opera / Wigmore Hall Voice Fellowship and this season has coachings with Joyce DiDonato in Berlin and Madrid.
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