Claudia Celeste Huckle

Mezzo-soprano

New England Finalist, 2004

Claudia Huckle, mezzo-soprano, is a twenty one year old foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music, London, England under the direction of Kathleen Linvingstone. She is currently on a one-year exchange with the New England Conservatory studying with Susan Clickner.

Last year she was the overall winner of the International Thelma King Award for Singers competition held in Bath, UK. She also came first in four categories at the Devon Music Festival and was presented with the award for the "most promising singer of the year." At the Royal College she won the Wilfred Brown Duo prize 2001.

Claudia has given private recitals for their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden in Venice and for the First Lady of Peru at Palazzo Corsini, Florence. After a successful concert for the Neumunster Arts Festival in Germany 2002, she was invited to return in May of last year, to give a recital for the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Volksbank.

Following a recommendation, Claudia was invited to sing for Sir John Eliot Gardiner at his home in the UK, last summer. Having given a recital for the Greenwich International Women's club, Connecticut, last October, Ms. Huckle has been asked to return in the spring for a second concert. She is also looking forward to performing Bach's Cantata no. 54 with the New England Conservatory Baroque Ensemble at Jordan Hall in March.

In January, Claudia was seen as Natura in La Calisto with the New England Conservatory opera theatre at Boston's Majestic Theatre. She has also performed the role of 3rd boy in The Magic Flute with Somerset Opera in 2000 and also with the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, Royal College Of Music as an understudy in 2003. Following La Calisto, she received her first review, which appeared in The Boston Globe which read: "The most sumptuous voice last night was that of alto Claudia Huckle leading off the allegorical prologue."

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