CLAIRE SMITH BERMINGHAM

BAROQUE VIOLIN

Claire Smith Bermingham received the M.Mus. in violin performance at Boston University studying under David Kim and studied baroque violin with Judson Griffin. She has performed on baroque violin with Siren Baroque, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Academy of Sacred Drama, Biber Baroque, Dorian Baroque, La Fiocco, Vilas Baroque, Big Apple Baroque, Vox Ama Deus, Voices Chorale, and Yale Schola Cantorum, and on modern violin with Astoria Symphony, Sinfonia Celestis, Greenwich Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Di Capo Opera, Bronx Opera, Staten Island Philharmonic, and Connecticut Grand Opera. On Broadway, Claire has performed with Sean “Puffy” Combs and “Father Misty Jones” on Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, and The View, in concerts with “Mana,” and as a regular sub for the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater, for over a year. As violinist for Ritchie Blackmore’s band Blackmore’s Night, she toured Europe several times. Claire can be heard on Shakira’s album “She Wolf” and on Blackmore’s Night’s “Dancer and the Moon,” “Winter Carols,” “All Our Yesterdays,” and on Candice Night’s “Starlight, Starbright.” Claire is also a founding member and co-director of The Queens Consort (queensconsort.com), currently in its fifth season.