…Claire Pegram is a versatile artist and performer with a commitment to expressive story-telling.
Pegram sings regularly with the Los Angeles Opera Chorus and was most recently seen in the May/June 2023 production of Verdi’s Otello. Upcoming engagements again find Pegram joining the LA Opera Chorus as a featured soloist for LA Opera's May/June 2024 production of Turandot.
Ms. Pegram is recognized as a rising talent on opera and concert stages, alike. Most recently, Pegram made her Mission Opera debut as Madame Roland in the West Coast Premiere of Girondines, a new work in English. In September 2023, Pegram was a selected participant for a masterclass with star-baritone Lucas Meachem, sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Los Angeles chapter (NATS-LA) and the Opera Buffs, INC. In April 2022, Ms. Pegram was named the First Place winner of the Gwendolyn Roberts Young Artist Competition and gave a recital in October 2022 as the NATS-LA "Young Artist of the Year”. And in 2021, Pegram was selected as a grant recipient and soloist for the Opera Buffs, INC.’s Discovery Concert. Pegram solos regularly with the Sierra Linda Master Chorale, First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and the Vallejo Drive Church in Glendale, CA.
Ms. Pegram also sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and will join the Chorale and the LA Philharmonic for upcoming performances of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Karawane and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé in December 2023 as well as the beloved Festival of Carols concert. Pegram’s other recent Walt Disney Concert Hall engagements with the LA Master Chorale include Heaven + Earth: The Music of Reena Esmail and Philip Glass (October 2023), Mahler 3 with Zubin Mehta and the LA Philharmonic (Mar. ’23), Rachmaninoff’s The Bells (Feb. ’23), Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor with Gustavo Dudamel, The Weimar Republic with Esa-Pekka Salonen, the world premiere of Gabriela Ortiz's Yanga, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl.
On the opera stage, Pegram was scheduled to cover First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Aspen Opera Theater in 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19). Other recent opera engagements include Pegram as the title role in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute’s 2019 production of Rodelinda by G.F. Handel:
“Pegram spun out long lines, revealing a strong, passionate, and distinctive presence...One show-stopping scene was the heart-rending duet between him [Taylor Boone] and his Queen (Pegram). This farewell duet intertwines the two singers' gorgeous voices.” -Timothy Lindeman, CVNC 2019, Rodelinda.
Ms. Pegram's roles with the Fletcher Opera Institute include Sophie in Massenet’s Werther (2019), the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (2018), Mélisande in Impressiones de Pelléas (2018), Tisbe in La Cenerentola (2018), and Trio Girl in Trouble in Tahiti (2017).
In the summer of 2017, Ms. Pegram made her debut with Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Arkansas where she sang the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, one of her most-beloved roles. Other 2017 performances included Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Nannetta (Falstaff) with Opera MODO in Detroit, Michigan.
Claire Pegram received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute in North Carolina in 2019. She received a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan in 2016.
Ms. Pegram currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches privately.