Claire Galloway

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Music

Biography:

Claire Galloway is a soprano with performance experience in recitals, ensembles, and concerts at venues including Baltimore Concert Opera, Opera NexGen, Lidal North Oslo, Savannah Voice Festival, Bel Cantanti Opera, Prototype Festival, and Bach in Baltimore. She has presented roles by Mozart, Poulenc, Massenet, and Bernstein; and premiered roles by Steven Crino, Jonathan Dove, and Frances Pollock. As an educator, at the Peabody Conservatory and in private voice and diction instruction through Claire Galloway, Soprano LLC, she has taught a range of subjects, including the courses Advanced French Airs et Mélodies, Building a Brand and Portfolio, Pitching Your Own Creative Idea, German and French Vocal Literature, French and Italian Diction, and Vocal Ensemble. She has training and certification in somatic body work, at the Somatic Song Institute; vocal and repertoire work as Brown Loranger Fellow, Songfest, and Ravinia Steans Music Institute Fellow; and language and repertoire work at the Nordic Song Festival, Tollhättan, Sweden; Middlebury College Summer Language Institute; and Center for University Programs Abroad, Paris. Galloway is fluent or IPA proficient in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Czech, and Ukrainian. She was awarded second prize at 2023’s songSLAM and the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition; and was a semifinalist at the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, and NYIOPS/Premiere Opera Vocal Competition, among others.

BA, Bard College; MAT, Boston University; MM, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. At Bard since 2023.