__NOTOC__ Clare Hammond (born 1985) is a British

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. In 2016, she was awarded the

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's Young Artist award.

Early life and education

Hammond grew up in Nottingham, was educated at

Nottingham Girls' High School Nottingham Girls' High School is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school for girls aged 3–19, situated just north of Nottingham city centre. The school was founded in 1875 and forms part of the Girls' Day School Trust. H ...

and studied at

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...

, where she achieved a double first in music. She then undertook postgraduate study with Ronan O'Hora at the

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music school, music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz al ...

. She has also completed a DMA at London's City University, writing her thesis on 20th-century left-hand piano concertos commissioned by pianist

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Performance career

Hammond has performed in concert halls and at festivals across Europe, and is regularly broadcast on

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and other European radio networks. She has collaborated with artists including the

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, Brodsky, Endellion, and Badke quartets, and

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, Andrew Kennedy,

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, and

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. Clare has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Warsaw Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and Swedish Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, she was awarded the

's Young Artist award. An advocate of contemporary music, she has given world premieres of major works by composers such as

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and Arlene Sierra. In 2018 she developed ''Ghosts and Whispers'', for piano and film, in collaboration with animators the

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and composer

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, which has been performed at the Barbican in London and Fundación Juan March in Madrid. Hammond has a strong interest in Polish music and culture and co-curated a centenary festival for

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in London. She has toured Poland on multiple occasions, and performed at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw in 2014.

Film work

In 2015 Hammond appeared as the young Miss Shepherd in the film adaptation of '' The Lady in the Van'' by

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and recorded the film's soundtrack with

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, the

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, and the

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. She was involved as a piano teacher in the 2011 film ''

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'' and was

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's hand double.

Discography

Hammond has released a number of recordings: * ''Hélène de Montgeroult: Etudes'' (BIS Records, 2022) * ''Adam Gorb: Piano Music'' (Toccata Classics, 2022) * ''Variations'' – a programme of twentieth and twenty-first century variations for piano (BIS Records, 2021) * ''Josef Mysliveček: Complete Music for Keyboard'' – with the

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and

Nicholas McGegan James Nicholas McGegan OBE (born 14 January 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flutist, conductor and early music expert. Biography McGegan received his early education at Nottingham High School. He subse ...

(BIS Records, 2019) * ''Roman Palester: Concertinos'' – with Sinfonia Iuventus and Łukasz Borowicz (PWM, 2019) * ''Robert Saxton: Piano Music'' (Toccata Classics, 2018) * ''Art of Dancing'' – music for piano and trumpet, with Simon Desbruslais (Signum Records, 2017) * ''Horae (pro clara)'' – solo piano music by Ken Hesketh (BIS Records, 2016) * ''The Lady In The Van'' soundtrack (Sony, 2015) * ''Etude'' – 20th and 21st-century etudes by Unsuk Chin, Karol Szymanowski, Sergei Lyapunov and Nikolai Kapustin (BIS Records, 2015) * ''Reflections'' – piano works by Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik (BIS Records, 2014) * ''Piano Polyptych'' – piano works by contemporary British composers (Prima Facie Records, 2012)

References

External links

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IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
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