Claire Galloway

Claire Galloway is a soprano with performance experience in recitals, ensembles, and concerts at venues including Opera Baltimore, Market Square Concert Series, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Opera NexGen, Lidal North Oslo, Savannah Voice Festival, Bel Cantanti Opera, Prototype Festival, and Bach in Baltimore. She has presented roles by Mozart, Poulenc, Massenet, and Bernstein; and premiered roles by Steven Crino, Jonathan Dove, and Frances Pollock. She was awarded second prize at 2023’s songSLAM and the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition; and was a semifinalist at the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, and NYIOPS/Premiere Opera Vocal Competition, among others.

As an educator at Bard College, the Peabody Conservatory, and in private voice and diction instruction through Claire Galloway, Soprano LLC, she has taught a large spectrum of vocal students as well as a range of courses, including the courses Advanced French Airs et Mélodies, Building a Brand and Portfolio, Pitching Your Own Creative Idea, German and French Vocal Literature, French and Italian Diction, and has been a coach for the vocal ensembles run by Beth Willer. 

She has training and certification in somatic body work, founding and running The Somatic Singer workshop series and was a co-founder of the Somatic Song Institute in Laguna Beach, CA. She was a Brown Loranger Fellow at Songfest as well as a Ravinia Steans Music Institute Fellow. 

She has specialized in Nordic repertoire as a Fellow at the Nordic Song Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden for the past three years. Galloway is fluent or IPA proficient in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Czech, and Ukrainian. She honed her language skills at Bard College as a French double major, Boston University as an M.A.T. in French Secondary Education, Middlebury College Summer Language Institutes, Center for University Programs Abroad in Paris, and was a Teaching Assistant in Bouxwiller, France through TAPIF. 

BA, Bard College; MAT, Boston University; MM, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. She has been at Bard since 2023 at Artist-in-Residence.