Claire Forstman

Claire Forstman is a pianist and vocal coach currently a member of the Resident Artist studio at Portland Opera. She has also held studio residencies at the Florentine Opera, Opera Steamboat, and Finger Lakes Opera, and coached at Chicago Summer Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her studio recording work with The Orchestra Now and The Curiosity Cabinet ensembles can be heard on Buried Alive (Bridge Records), For You (Pinch Records), and Solitude and Secrecy (Pinch Records). Claire also plays this season for the Oregon Ballet Theatre School, and previously worked as a class pianist for the Milwaukee Ballet School and Academy. She earned her M.M. in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a B.M. in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music.