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CHROMA Clare is a founder member and the artistic adminstrator of CHROMA - a dynamic, critically acclaimed chamber ensemble featuring some of Britain's most outstanding musicians. Since its inception in 1997, CHROMA has quickly gained a reputation as an ensemble of the highest calibre and has been invited to appear at many major festivals the length of the UK. Following its debut in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank, CHROMA has become most closely associated with the performance of contemporary music and has forged close links with many prominent British composers through an extensive series of premières and collaborations. Recent projects have included a birthday tribute (Gabriel Jackson's Windflower Cycle) for the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay at the Tate Modern; and the première of Jonathan Dove's On Spital Fields - a Community Cantata at Christ Church for the Spitalfields Festival. (winner of the RPS Music Award 2006 for Education) Other premières in 2005 included works by leading young composers Gabriel Jackson, Deborah Pritchard, Luke Bedford, Tansy Davies and Ben Foskett. Highlights for 2006 include CHROMA's return visit to Spitalfields Festival with a programme of Piazzolla and Golijov, reunited with the accordion player Ian Watson, and an emotional return to Wigtownshire in Scotland with Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence for WestFest. CHROMA then joins innovative and acclaimed opera company Tête à Tête for workshops of a new version of Homer's Odyssey taking place on the Shetland Islands, involving a company of singers, musicians and local knitters and spinners. The opera is scheduled to première in the Shetlands in 2006, followed by a tour that includes London, Harrogate, Dublin and Stavanger, Norway. CHROMA is also committed to education and outreach work, and runs education projects regularly. "A fine ensemble... the cause of new music needs advocates like these" Daily Telegraph "CHROMA played with an unabashed and infectious passion... A fine example of the hidden gems the Festival can occasionally produce, a huge standing ovation came as no great surprise. More, please!" more details at the CHROMA website
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