upComing Events
Opera Bend: La traviata
Claire joins Opera Bend as a repetiteur for their production of Verdi’s La traviata. Conducted by Michael Gesme.
April 19 and 20: 7 pm; April 21: 3 pm
Pinckney Center for the Arts: 2600 NW College Way, Bend, OR 97703
Tickets: https://www.bpt.me/event/6236257
Portland Symphonic Choir: From the Vault recital series
Claire collaborates as a guest pianist with members of the Portland Symphonic Choir on a showcase recital for the ensemble. Curated by Abby Krawson.
April 21: 5 pm
Bank of Expensify: 401 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
Portland Opera: Puccini in Concert
In the centennial year of Puccini’s death, Portland Opera presents a program of his most enduring works, featuring the Portland Opera Chorus and Orchestra, and led by conductor Nicholas Fox. Claire will serve as principal rehearsal pianist and orchestral keyboardist.
May 11: 7:30
Keller Auditorium: 222 SW Clay St. Portland, OR 97201
Tickets: https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/23-24-season/puccini-in-concert/
Past Events
Opera Bend: La traviata preview concert
Featuring leads Allison, Pohl, Katherine Goforth, Jocelyn Claire Thomas, Zachary Lenox, Daniel Gibbs, and Adrien Rosales, this concert offers audiences a chance to hear the cast in recital before Opera Bend’s performances of the Verdi classic the following weekend.
April 13: 7 pm
Pinckney Center for the Arts: 2600 NW College Way, Bend, OR 97703
Portland Opera: Resident Artist Recital
Claire performs with Judy Yannini, soprano, Roland Hawkins II, tenor, and Paul Floyd, pianist, on a program including works by Margaret Bonds, Daniel Catán, John Carter, Giacomo Puccini, and Joaquín Turina.
April 10: 7:00
Hampton Opera Center: 211 SE Caruthers, Portland, OR 97202
Tickets: https://www.portlandopera.org/calendar/2024/23-24-resident-artist-recital-spring/
Portland Opera: Shakespeare Cabaret
Claire performs a program celebrating Shakespeare’s influence in opera, ballet, and musical theater, featuring Resident Artists Judy Yannini, Roland Hawkins II, and Antonio Domino with guest artist Daniel Gibbs. Includes works by Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Sergei Prokofiev, and Charles Gounod, among others.
April 5: 7:30
527 E Main St., Hillsboro, OR 97123
Tickets: https://cityofhillsboro.ticketspice.com/portland-opera-2024
Portland Opera: The Snowy Day
Claire worked as backstage conductor, coach, and rehearsal pianist for the West Coast premiere of Joel Thompson’s opera based on the groundbreaking and beloved children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats. Directed by Omer ben Seadia, conducted by Damien Geter, with soprano Flora Hawk as Peter.
March 16, 22: 7:30; March 24: 2:00
Newmark Theatre: 1111 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205
Tickets: https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/23-24-season/the-snowy-day/
Portland Symphonic Choir: From the Vault recital series
Claire collaborated as a guest pianist with members of the Portland Symphonic Choir on a showcase recital for the ensemble. Curated by Abby Krawson.
February 21: 6 pm
Bank of Expensify: 401 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
Portland Opera: Enchanted Woods: Shakespeare & Song
Claire continued her Portland Resident Artist tenure as a coach and member of music staff for this intimate chamber concert featuring soprano Katrina Galka, members of the Portland Opera Orchestra, and the Portland Opera Resident Artists. Directed by Kristine McIntyre, with musical direction by Portland Opera’s Assistant Conductor Nicholas Fox.
February 2, 3: 7:30; February 4: 2:00
February 9, 10: 7:30; February 11: 2:00
Hampton Opera Center: 211 SE Caruthers, Portland, OR 97202
Tickets: https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/23-24-season/enchanted-woods-shakespeare-song/
Renegade Opera: American Patriots
Claire joins Portland’s Renegade Opera as rehearsal and orchestral pianist for the workshop and performance of a new theatrical song cycle, presented as a part of their Artists in Conversation Festival:
“American Patriots, created by Samantha Rose Williams and Yaniv Segal, is a new music-theater production that explores what it means to be American from four vastly different perspectives: African-American, Native American, New American, and white Working-Class American. Songs set to the text of interviews with Americans today, take an unflinching look at the day-to-day realities of American ideals. Featuring compositions by Regina Baiocchi, Gala Flagello, Daniele Jagelski, Brandon Scott Rumsey, and Yaniv Segal, the five composers’ unique styles create a dynamic auditory experience that is at times classical, jazzy, broadway, funny, serious, and alarming but always engaging and unexpected. American Patriots asks audiences to actively examine the way they think about identity, unconscious bias, and who this country is for; and to foster meaningful connection with people they may not have previously identified with.”
November 18: 7:00; November 19: 3:00
Alberta House: 5131 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211
Tickets: https://www.renegadeopera.org/2023-artists-in-conversation-festival
Portland Opera Resident Artist Recital
Claire performs with Antonio Domino, tenor, Sankara Harouna, baritone, and Paul Floyd, pianist, on selections including Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches, Joel Thompson’s My Dungeon Shook, Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca, Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, the duet from Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, and an excerpt from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. The concert also features art songs by Copland, Beethoven, and Moses Hogan.
November 9: 7:00
Hampton Opera Center: 211 SE Caruthers, Portland, OR 97202
Tickets: This event is sold out.
Resident Artist Pianist at Portland Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
Claire begins her season with Portland Opera as music staff for a production of Le Nozze di Figaro, directed by Fenlon Lamb and conducted by Elizabeth Askren.
October 28, 7:30; November 3, 7:30; November 5, 2:00
Keller Auditorium: 222 SW Clay St. Portland, OR 97201
Tickets: https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/23-24-season/the-marriage-of-figaro/
Principal Coach and Repetiteur at Opera Steamboat
Claire joins Opera Steamboat as music staff for productions of Gianni Schicchi and Proving Up, as well as a premiere workshop of Leanna Kirchoff’s Welcome to the Madness.
Gianni Schicchi: August 6, 2:00; August 11, 7:00
Proving Up: August 5, 7:00; August 12, 2:00
Welcome to the Madness: August 7-9 [workshop]
Julie Harris Theater at Perry Mansfield: 40755 Co Rd 36, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
Tickets: https://operasteamboat.org/2023-operas/
Agrippina with Chicago Summer Opera
Claire plays continuo and recitativi in addition to serving as rehearsal pianist for a production led by director Cathy Dunn and conductor Adriano Spampanato.
July 12, 7:30; July 15, 12:00
Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall: 430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agrippina-handel-tickets-603930391057
Fizz & Ginger at the New York Comedy Club
[review: https://operawire.com/new-york-comedy-club-review-2023-ginger-and-fizz/]
Claire joins new music ensemble The Curiosity Cabinet for the premiere of this 1920s-set jazz opera by Whitney George. Supported by Fresh Squeezed Opera, the production will transform the New York Comedy Club into a speakeasy for three nights only.
June 19, 25, and 26, 7:30
New York Comedy Club: 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003
Tickets: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/fizz-ginger
Microcosm with Danceworks
[review: https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/dance/danceworks-proves-that-small-can-be-mighty/]
Claire, flutist Jennifer Burke, and trumpeter Alec Burke, as Microcosm ensemble, perform in collaboration with choreographers Elisabeth Roskopf and Gina Laurenzi; the program will include Microcosm’s 2022 commissioned work, to find beauty in surviving our emotions by Erika Malpass.
June 2, 7:30; June 3, 4:30, 7:30, June 4, 2:30
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center: 325 W Walnut St, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Tickets: https://danceworksmke.org/purchase-tickets/