Clare Salaman plays violin, baroque violin, hurdgurdy,
nyckelharpa, medieval vielle, rebec, hardanger fiddle 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, rebec and hurdy gurdy with the Dufay Collective and Joglaresa.
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, London Handel Players and the Palladian Ensemble and has toured with the dance theatre company, Second Stride, playing accordion, hurdy gurdy and violin. She has regular session on all her instruments for radio, TV and feature films.
Current projects include composing the music for a music theatre piece commissioned by Chipping Norton Theatre and performed at the Latitude festival this year. 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 and is a member of the Dufay collective and the original Retrospect Ensemble. 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. They recorded their debut album Symbiosis last year.
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, rebec and hurdy gurdy with the Dufay Collective and Joglaresa.
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, London Handel Players and the Palladian Ensemble and has toured with the dance theatre company, Second Stride, playing accordion, hurdy gurdy and violin. She has regular session on all her instruments for radio, TV and feature films.
Current projects include composing the music for a music theatre piece commissioned by Chipping Norton Theatre and performed at the Latitude festival this year. 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 and is a member of the Dufay collective and the original Retrospect Ensemble. 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. They recorded their debut album Symbiosis last year.