Claire Edwards

American-British-Canadian violinist Claire Edwards is the winner of numerous international competitions and awards, and has participated in music festivals and masterclasses worldwide. Claire completed her postgraduate studies this summer at the Royal College of Music in London, as an International Huawei Scholar supported by the George Stennett Award. She is a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester for their concert season in Vienna, the Salzburger Festspiele, and Bolzano Festival Bozen in Italy, the Bath Festival Orchestra based in London, and also currently is touring with international management from Paris and the UK, performing in Lake Como, Monaco, Portugal, Côte d’Azur, and New York. Latest engagements include performances alongside Lady Gaga in Villa Olmo, Lake Como, at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, and at London Fashion Week 2023. Upcoming tours include concerts in Portugal, Barbados, and Villa d'Este in Lake Como. Claire’s professors have included Pavel Vernikov, Lewis Kaplan, Boris Kuschnir, Jan Repko, Leonid Kerbel, Lutsia Ibragimova, Rufina Yefimova, and Mark Messenger. She is a winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Competition, the Blackwood Music Scholarship, and the Enola M. Lewis Scholarship Award, and has played in solo and chamber masterclasses with Pavel Vernikov, Lewis Kaplan, Alina Ibragimova, and Stanislav Pronin at the RCM, the Juilliard School, Wiener Meisterkurse, and Kronberg Academy. She has also participated in the BBC Symphony Orchestra Pathways Scheme, representing the RCM. Claire has the pleasure of concertising and touring frequently as both a solo, orchestral, and chamber player, working and touring on a regular basis with such renowned musicians and conductors as Maxim Vengerov, Bernard Haitink, Vasily Petrenko, Thomas Zehetmair, Niccola Benedetti, Rafael Payare, John Wilson, and Antonio Pappano, amongst others. She has performed with the Bath Festival Orchestra at the Bath Festival, recorded live by BBC, as well as the BFO London debut concert at Kings Place, the RCM Symphony Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, and Abbey Road Studios in London. Claire’s current musical outreach includes ambassadorship for the Benedetti Foundation, in support of the Benedetti Sessions, as well as teaching and giving masterclasses privately in schools throughout the UK. Claire plays on a Giuseppe Baldantoni violin made in Ancona in 1836. PERFORMANCE TOURS 2022/2023 Villa Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy | May 2022 Grand Resort Lagonissi, Athens, Greece | June 2022 Masseria Pettolecchia, Puglia, Italy | July 2022 Villa Olmo, Lake Como, Italy | July 2022 Château d’Estoublon, Côte d’Azur, France | July 2022 Castello di Casole, Tuscany, Italy | August 2022 Villa San Michele, Florence, Italy | August 2022 Mateus Palace, Vila Real, Portugal | September 2022 Lisbon, Portugal | September 2022 Claridges, London | September 2022 Timna Park, Eilat, Israel | October 2022 The Dorchester, London | October 2022 Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi | October 2022 New York City | December 2022 Prague, Czech Republic | January 2023 Tel Aviv, Israel | January 2023 Braga, Portugal | March 2023 Villa d'Este, Lake Como | June 2023 Bridgetown, Barbados | June 2023