Clare Finnimore
Clare Finnimore studied the violin and viola with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she was awarded the prize for unaccompanied Bach and the School Viola Prize.
She is a founder member and principal viola of the Guildhall Strings with whom she has made numerous broadcasts and recordings and has travelled all over the world. She played “Ulysses Awakes” by John Woolrich throughout a tour of the USA which was written for and premiered by Clare and the ensemble.
She has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square, Britten Sinfonia and with the singer Dawn Upshaw in the Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall and live on BBC Radio 3. In 1999 she was the soloist in Britten’s “Lachrymae” at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Clare has been guest principal with all the major London chamber orchestras and has performed live with Sting, Bjork, Massive Attack, Skunk Anansie.
She plays on a Marc Soubeyran viola made in 1993.
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Next Production
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch October
London, Norwich, Cambridge and Birmingham
06 - 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
