Clairevan Kampen
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About Claire
Globe Associate and Senior Research Fellow for early Modern Music Creative Associate of the Old Vic Theatre
Claire Van Kampen is a multi-award winning composer, writer, performer and director and the first woman to occupy the positions of musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.
From 1997, Claire was the Director of Theatre Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - composing period and contemporary music for over 30 productions. She is currently the Globe Associate and Senior Research Fellow for early Modern Music and Creative Associate of the Old Vic Theatre, London.
As a composer Claire has created original scores for Broadway productions of True West (2000), Boeing-Boeing (2008), La Bete ( 2010), Twelfth Night and Richard III ( 2013/14) and her own authored play Farinelli and the King (2017/18) –which was nominated for 6 Olivier and 5 Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Claire has strong artistic links with choreographer Antonia Franceschi after Claire’s debut piece She Holds Out Her Hand (2018). Their collaborations include Claire's ballet Uncaged, premiered with the New York Theatre Ballet Company in February 2020, and Riccardo’s Broschi’s 1730 opera Idaspe for Pittsburgh’s Quantum Theater.
In the 23/24 season, Claire directs Les Fetes de Thalie for Opera Lafayette in New York and Washington, composes the music for a new production of Pericles for the Royal Shakespeare Company & makes her Aldeburgh Festival directorial debut.