Clare Wilkinson

{{About|the British singer of Renaissance music|the American singer|Claire Rachel Wilkinson}}

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Clare Wilkinson (born in Manchester, England) is an English mezzo-soprano{{cite book|author=Richard Turbet|title=William Byrd: A Research and Information Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Ev_-dXPEvYC&pg=PA281|date=4 May 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-28205-8|pages=281–}} specialising in Baroque and Renaissance music.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/fretworkwilkinsoncourtenay-kings-place-london-6282713.html|title=Fretwork/Wilkinson/Courtenay, Kings Place, London|work=The Independent}}

Her recent CD recordings are

• Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds with the Rose Consort of Viols (Delphian Records){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/10/mynstrelles-with-straunge-sounds-review-claire-wilkinson-rose-consort-of-viols|title=Mynstrelles With Straunge Sounds CD review – diligent playing, beguiling singing|work=Guardian|date=10 September 2015 |last1=Molleson |first1=Kate }}
• Henry's Music: Motets from a Royal Choirbook with Alamire (Obsidian)
• Anne Boleyn's Songbook with Alamire (Obsidian)
• Byrd 1589 with Alamire (Inventa Records)
• Bach's Magnificat with the Dunedin Consort (Linn Records)
• Adoramus Te with the Rose Consort of Viols (Deux-Elles Limited)
• Divine Madness: Souls in Exile with Sofie Vanden Eynde and Moneim Adwan (Cypres)
• The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson (Signum Records)
• The Silken Tent with Fretwork (Signum Records)
• Ballads within a Dream (deutsche harmonia mundi)
• Handel: Messiah (Dublin Version, 1742) with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records)
• J.S. Bach: Matthew Passion (Final Performing Version, c. 1742) with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records)
• J.S. Bach: John Passion, Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records)
• J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio with Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn Records)