Clare Salaman plays baroque violin, hurdgurdy,
nyckelharpa, medieval vielle, hardanger fiddle, viola
d’amore and accordion.
After graduating in music from Merton College, Oxford, she completed two years of postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music. While she was there she joined the English Concert, which led to work with all the major period instrument orchestras in the UK. Her wide experience as a leader includes Jonathan Miller's acclaimed production of Bach's St Matthew Passion, which was recorded for CD and BBC television and groups such as Florilegium, St James Baroque Players, Welsh Baroque Orchestra and the European Union Baroque Orchestra. She has performed and recorded chamber music for CD and radio with the Purcell Quartet, London Handel Players, St James Baroque and Charivari Agreeable, and has taught at and directed the period instrument orchestras in the Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She plays medieval vielle and hurdy gurdy with the Dufay Collective, Joglaresa and Retrospect.
Pursuing her interest in non-Western music she has made trips to India, where she made field recordings and transcriptions of Rajastani folk music, and to Mali, Senegal and The Gambia where she had the opportunity to stay with griot (musician) families. She spent a month in East Africa collaborating with Tanzanian musicians on a British Council project with street kids. As a member of the Chris Wood trio she explored her interest in English traditional music.
She has performed hurdy gurdy concertos with the London Concert Sinfonia and the Palladian Ensemble and has toured with the dance theatre company, Second Stride, playing accordion, hurdy gurdy and violin. Session and film work includes playing the violin and hurdy gurdy on the soundtrack for Wildlife on One, and nyckelharpa and hurdy-gurdy on the soundtrack for The Harlot’s Progress and City of Vice, both recently shown on Channel 4. She plays nyckelharpa and gurdy in The Ian McMillan Orchestra which was recently featured on the South Bank Show and Radio 4"s Loose Ends. In 2007 she started her own group SYM, a collaboration with internationally renowned Norwegian hardanger fiddle player, Anne Hytta and French nyckelharpa player, Eleonore Billy. Their debut CD Symbiosis will be out at the end of April 2008.
After graduating in music from Merton College, Oxford, she completed two years of postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music. While she was there she joined the English Concert, which led to work with all the major period instrument orchestras in the UK. Her wide experience as a leader includes Jonathan Miller's acclaimed production of Bach's St Matthew Passion, which was recorded for CD and BBC television and groups such as Florilegium, St James Baroque Players, Welsh Baroque Orchestra and the European Union Baroque Orchestra. She has performed and recorded chamber music for CD and radio with the Purcell Quartet, London Handel Players, St James Baroque and Charivari Agreeable, and has taught at and directed the period instrument orchestras in the Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She plays medieval vielle and hurdy gurdy with the Dufay Collective, Joglaresa and Retrospect.
Pursuing her interest in non-Western music she has made trips to India, where she made field recordings and transcriptions of Rajastani folk music, and to Mali, Senegal and The Gambia where she had the opportunity to stay with griot (musician) families. She spent a month in East Africa collaborating with Tanzanian musicians on a British Council project with street kids. As a member of the Chris Wood trio she explored her interest in English traditional music.
She has performed hurdy gurdy concertos with the London Concert Sinfonia and the Palladian Ensemble and has toured with the dance theatre company, Second Stride, playing accordion, hurdy gurdy and violin. Session and film work includes playing the violin and hurdy gurdy on the soundtrack for Wildlife on One, and nyckelharpa and hurdy-gurdy on the soundtrack for The Harlot’s Progress and City of Vice, both recently shown on Channel 4. She plays nyckelharpa and gurdy in The Ian McMillan Orchestra which was recently featured on the South Bank Show and Radio 4"s Loose Ends. In 2007 she started her own group SYM, a collaboration with internationally renowned Norwegian hardanger fiddle player, Anne Hytta and French nyckelharpa player, Eleonore Billy. Their debut CD Symbiosis will be out at the end of April 2008.