 Mary Carewe's versatility encompasses musical theatre showstoppers and cabaret songs to contemporary music.
She has worked under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, John Rutter and Carl Davis with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra. Mary is also a regular guest with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin and, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, she has appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, Hampton Court Festival and the Royal Ulriksdal Palace Festival, Sweden.
As a recitalist, Mary extensively performs Serio us Cabaret programmes with her pianist Philip Mayers with whom she will make her debut next season at the Théâtre du Châtelet series 'Les Midis Musicaux' in Paris and the Concertgebouw 'Musiques en scène' series in Amsterdam. The duo has also been invited to be part of the Alicante Contemporary Music Festival and the Oxford Contemporary Music events series and will be presenting 'Kurt Weill: Emigré', a programme especially devised for the Kurt Weill festival in Dessau, the composer's native town.
Mary has recently been involved in both educational projects and Cabaret concerts together with Sinfonia VIVA with whom she will be performing again in the Spring 2003. In 2004, she will also be touring a Serious Cabaret programme including works by Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Britten with the contemporary music ensemble Psappha with whom she made a successful debut last November at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Among the highlights of past seasons, Mary has appeared at the Wigmore Hall with Thomas Adès, the Berlin Philharmonie with Ensemble Oriol, with whom she regularly performs, and at the Cheltenham Festival with the Matrix Ensemble. She also gave the premiere of Dominic Muldowney's Irish Love Songs, written especially for her at the Oxford Contemporary Music Festival in 1998. With Philip Mayers, she has sung at the Aldeburgh Festival, Djanogly Hall, Purcell Room, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Louisiana Music Series in Denmark and both Sheffield and Hull Universities.
Recording credits include Thomas Adès' Life Story for EMI (Gramophone Record of the Month), Peter Maxwell-Davies' Resurrection for Collins Classics and a solo album, Tell me The Truth about Love, a selection of Serious Cabaret songs for ASV. Mary has also recorded West End, Broadway and Film Music repertoire for Chandos and Silva Screen as well as numerous CDs with both the BBC Concert and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestras.
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