Claire Victoria Roberts at Market Hall & Assembly Rooms, Presteigne
About the show
Described as “one of Wales’s leading composers” by Wales Arts Review, Claire Victoria Roberts is a vocalist, violinist and composer taking traditional Welsh song in a new direction.
In collaboration with virtuosic strings, she performs folk songs and traditional music from both Wales and Argentina (where, in Patagonia, there is a Welsh- speaking community.) The music blends lush harmonies with vocal improvisation and lilting melodies.
Claire Victoria Roberts was born in West Wales, where she made a name for herself as a contemporary composer, before going on to study jazz singing in Spain. Last year, she performed at Llais Festival, The Crescent in Belfast, and Glasgow Jazz, as well as performing her unique arrangements of Welsh songs at the Barbican in London as part of Poesis for London Jazz Festival. She has previously sung at the Albert Hall for London jazz in 2024, and at Manchester Jazz Festival. As a composer, her music has been performed by BBC NOW and she has been commissioned by Oliver Coates, The Wigmore Hall, and the National Youth Choir. In 2021, she was awarded a PRS Foundation Composer Award, and in 2019, an RPS Composer Award.