Clare Norburn is a singer, playwright, producer, freelance arts fundraiser & artist mentor. She read music at Leeds University and singing at London College of Music.
 
As a playwright, she has developed a new genre of concertplays including, Beethoven’s Quartet Journey (six concert/plays to accompany a full cycle of his string quartets) for The Dante Quartet (2016), Purcell, the Musical (2018) for Ceruleo; and with director BAFTA-nominated Nicholas Renton: Breaking the Rules (2015) for The Marian Consort, Creating Carmen (2019) for CarmenCo and Galileo (2020) for Monteverdi String Band/Marian Consort.
 
She is Artistic Director, playwright and singer of The Telling, where music and theatre collide, for whom she has written: Empowered Women Trilogy (35+ performances & 3 films, selected by The Guardian as an online classical highlight of summer 2020), Love in the Lockdown (2021), an online play with music in nine episodes, starring Alec Newman and Rachael Stirling, and I, Spie (2021) which pushed the concertplay format, where Spooks meets Blackadder with music-theatre, 16th Century-style. 

Clare’s productions have toured UK festivals and venues including LSO St Luke’s, Bridgewater Hall and St John’s Smith Square. In 2023, Clare was selected as one of seven out of hundreds of applications to receive mentoring from BBC’s sister development company, The Space to rewrite an adaption of Love in the Lockdown for BBC Radio. In October 2023, she won The Colin Skipp Memorial Cup, a Radio-Playwriting competition with The End, Roll Credits about TV playwright Dennis Potter’s famous TV interview with Melvyn Bragg.
 
As a singer she has sung as a soloist with many medieval ensembles including her own group The Telling, Mediva (finalists in the York International Young Artists Competition and selected for Southbank Centre’s Fresh Young Artists Series), Eclipse and Vox Animae with whom she has recorded and performed medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen’s music drama Ordo Virtutum. She has performed throughout the country with these ensembles including at The Purcell Room, The Bridgewater Hall and at leading festivals including Spitalfields Music, Brighton Festival, Newbury Spring Festival and Buxton Festival.
 
Together with Deborah Roberts, Clare co-founded Brighton Early Music Festival. She stepped down in 2017 after 15 years to concentrate on writing and singing.  She is Artistic-Director of Stroud Green Festival, North London’s quirkiest acoustic music festival. She has trained and mentored young ensembles for RADA, Handel House, Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She ran the training element of the Early Music Live! scheme for 10 years at Brighton Early Music Festival, and has supported a number of young ensembles at Stroud Green Festival, helping them develop new projects, secure bookings with promoters and funding. She also works as a freelance arts fundraiser.