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Clare Helsdon
Clare is a freelance trumpet player based in London. Her varied career encompasses orchestral work, chamber ensembles, period instrument groups, solo recitals and commercial recordings. Clare has performed with orchestras such as The Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent garden and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, she also regularly plays for St Paul’s Sinfonia and recently gave a performance of J.S Bach’s virtuosic Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with them.
Clare began her musical education at Trinity College of Music where she studied modern trumpet and natural trumpet with Robert Farley. In 2004 Clare received a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst at the Academy she studied with Paul Archibald, Robert Farley, Howard Snell and James Watson. Clare performed regularly with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, Brass Soloists and also premiered Peter Maxwell Davies’ ‘Military March’ with the Manson Ensemble, for which she was singled out in ‘The Times’ review.
This year she has been in much demand for performances of Handel’s Messiah on both period and modern instruments. A recent review in The Independant singled out Clare, ‘the solo trumpeter whose “The Trumpet Shall Sound” had us all clamouring to get into heaven.’
