Recent U.S. highlights include solo recitals at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, (le) poisson rouge, the Art Institute of Chicago, and collaborative performances at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Miller Theatre, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Boston’s Gardner Museum. International highlights include headline appearances at Darmstadt Festival (Germany), Lockenhaus Festival (Austria), Musica Nova (Helsinki), and at El Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City).

Her extensive chamber music discography includes releases of collaborative performances on the Naxos, Bridge, Tzadik, Mode, Nonesuch, Kairos and New Focus labels. Her debut solo album, Aliento was released in October 2009 to instant acclaim:
The Chicago Reader declared, “The entire album is a knockout,” and the American Record Guide described the debut as “stunning.”

In 2001, Claire founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), which has been described as by the New Yorker as “a powerhouse of new-music programming…brilliant and unexpected” and by the New York Times as “one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music.” She has served as executive director of ICE since its inception. Under Claire’ s leadership, ICE was awarded the 2010 Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center, and the organization has won two ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventurous Programming, in 2005 and 2010.

A sought-after lecturer, teacher and chamber music coach, Claire has given lectures and master classes recently at Smith College, CalArts, Northwestern University and the Oberlin Conservatory, where she received a B.M. in 2001 in the studio of Michel Debost. Her many honors include the Carlos Surinach Prize from the BMI Foundation (2010), First Prize in the Concert Artist Guild International Competition (2008), First Prize in the California Young Artists Competition (1995), First Prize in the National Young Artist Competition (2001), and The Presidential Scholar Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (1996). She currently lives in Brooklyn.