Performer Profile
Natalie Clifton-Griffith
Natalie Clifton-Griffith was born in Cornwall and studied at The Birmingham Conservatoire and The Royal College of Music. She has been a prize winner at Great Elm and The First London Handel Festival Singing Competition (2002).
Highlights of her career include Bach's Magnificat (Barbican Hall, ECO), St John Passion and Cantata 82a (Hanover Band), Mass in B Minor (Lyon Early Music Festival), Cantata 209 Non sa che sia dolore (Purcell Room), Handel's Messiah at most major cathedrals in England, Apollo e Dafne and Alexander Balus (London Handel Festival). Classical repertoire includes Haydn's Creation (Bath Abbey), Nelson Mass (Lichfield Cathedral), Missa Sancti Nicholai, Salve Regina and Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate (CBSO Symphony Hall and English Haydn Festival) and Mass in C Minor (ECO).
Natalie appears regularly as a soloist with The English Concert (Biber's Missa Christi Resurgentis, Handel's Dixit Dominus, QEH and Bath Festival and Vivaldi's Gloria) and Ex Cathedra on CD and concerts including Lalande's Dies Irae (BBC Proms), Handel's Solomon and Purcell's Fairy Queen (Symphony Hall). Also with CBSO Baroque Ensemble, Armonico Tributo, and Philomela (Madrid and The Canary Islands).
Other concert engagements have included Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream (CBSO), Canteloube's Chants D'Auvergne, Villa Lobos Bachianas Brazilieras V, Paul Spicer's Easter Oratorio (ESO), John Joubert's Wings of Faith (CBSO), Orff's Carmina Burana (Birmingham Royal Ballet and English Symphony Orchestra) and Mater Gloriosa in Mahler's Symphony No.8 (Symphony Hall).
Operatic roles include Timea (La Liberta Contenta), Venus (Venus and Adonis), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Queen of Night (Magic Flute) and Princesse (L'Enfant et les Sortilleges).
Natalie has recorded for EMI Classics (Rodrigo), Hyperion (De Lalande, Charpentier and three discs of South American Baroque music), Archiv (Biber) and Lammas (Karg-Elert). She recently appeared in an article for Early Music News - 'Rising Stars'.
