Clara Orif soprano
James Cheung piano
Programme tbc
Clara Orif, award-winning soprano, currently performs with Royal Academy of Music Opera and is an Oxford Song Emerging Artist. Her recent stage performances include the role of Ginevra in the Royal Academy’s 2023 production of Handel’s Ariodante, Fanny in Rossini’s La cambiale di martrimonio, Barbarina in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Iphis in Haendel’s Jephtha.
Born in Paris into a French-Scottish family, she is currently based in London. Clara is generously supported by the London Women’s Clinic Foundation Award.
James Cheung has played in many song recitals at the Halls with singers such as Benjamin Appl in Schubert’s Winterreise & Die schöne Müllerin, and Alison Rose and Marcus Farnsworth in Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook. He partnered Agata Daraskaite violin in the Great Hall in Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. He has given masterclasses at RAM with celebrated baritone Christian Gerhaher in which Clara Orif took part.