Clare Ghigo

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Clare Ghigo

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Clare Ghigo.

is a mezzo-soprano. She was born on the 20th May 1986 and hails from Żurrieq.

Clare Ghigo was introduced to music at the age of six, when she started violin lessons with Tatjana Chircop. Later she joined the Malta Children’s choir under the direction of Ray Mangion. At the age of sixteen she started to take voice lessons more seriously under the tuition of Gillian Zammit and Denise Mulholland. Clare followed an LTCL in musical theatre performance and HND in Theatre Studies and History of Art at the University of Malta.

Clare took part in various local productions by companies such as Masquerade, Drama Troupe, Curtain Raiser and foreign workshops such as Arts Ed and Guildford Conservatoire of Acting. Her operatic experience includes the roles of Hansel in Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel at St James Cavalier, third lady in the production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Manoel Theatre, and the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aneas at Canongate Kirk this January 2010.

Recently, Clare sang the role of the Old Gypsy Woman in Rachmaninov’s Aleko as part of this year’s BOV Opera festival. Apart from the theatrical experience Clare also performed in various concerts both in Edinburgh and Malta, which include the Academy’s 40th Anniversary concert and a Debutants concert this May with the Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra. Clare is currently finishing her third year at the Ian Tomlin Academy of Music, studying voice under Joan Busby and Patricia Macmahon. She will be furthering her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, this coming September, 2013.