The story so far.

Clover is a mezzo-soprano, studying with Kate Paterson and Jonathan Papp at the Royal Academy Opera Studio. She is generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Award, the Hannah Horowitz Award and the Opera Awards Foundation.

Born in London to a family of non-musicians and raised near Bath, Clover completed her undergraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of Marcus van den Akker, graduating with First Class Honours. Clover attained her Master’s with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music. During this time, she was recipient of the Hannah Horowitz Award; competed in the finals of the prestigious Richard Lewis Award and was awarded the Charles Norman Prize for outstanding studentship two years running. She is a member of the Academy Song Circle, is a Josephine Baker Trust Artist and also had the privilege of performing in masterclasses with Ailish Tynan and Mary Bevan.

Clover has been an Emerging Artist at Nevill Holt Opera and a member of the inaugural If Opera ensemble. Her recent operatic roles include: the title role in Handel’s Ariodante (RAO); Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen; Mystery / First Attendant in The Fairy Queen, directed by Laurence Cummings (RAM); Anna in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (National Youth Ballet); Hansel, Hansel and Gretel; Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro; The Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas; Arnalta / Fortuna, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Guildhall); Abbie, Sane and Sound (Grimeborn). In the spring, Clover will perform the role of Florence Pike in Britten’s Albert Herring (RAO).

She has performed in opera scenes as Annio in La Clemenza di Tito (RAO); Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier (RAM); Charlotte in Werther (RAM); Rinaldo in Rinaldo (RAM); Bradamante, Alcina (Guildhall); Didone, L’Egisto (Guildhall).

Her concert successes have been performing Říkadla for London Symphony Orchestra as part of their Janáček Discovery Day at LSO St Luke’s; Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the Freude Orchestra; the world premiere of song cycle Etched onto Me by James Allen, for Barbican’s ‘Singing for Our Lives’; Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky; Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at Basilique Cathédral de Saint-Denis; Mahler 3 conducted by Semyon Bychkov at Royal Festival Hall.

A keen recitalist, Clover has performed in a growing number of locations across England, such as at the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Italian Cultural Institute, St George’s Bristol, Iford Manor, St Lawrence Jewry, the University of Cambridge and at the Wiltshire Music Centre.

Alongside this, Clover has made a name for herself in performing and reciting poetry. Her recitations have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please programme.