19th January 2024
Claire M Singer is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music, film and installations. Known for her experimental approach to the organ, she has three critically acclaimed releases on Touch. ‘Claire M Singer really knows how to wring the best out of this magnificent instrument, creating moments of sustained rapture’ – The Guardian.
Awards include the Oram Award in 2017 for her innovation in sound and music and the Festival Castell de Peralada Award for best film score in 2019 (Tell It To The Bees). In 2020 her work Gleann Ciùin for organ and mixed ensemble was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, which was commissioned by the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Claire has been Music Director of the organ at Union Chapel in Islington, London since 2012. In 2016 she founded the only festival of its kind, Organ Reframed, which focuses on commissioning and presenting innovative new experimental music, which re-imagines the organ for both artist and audience.
