Mary Carewe’s versatility ranges from musical theatre showstoppers and cabaret songs to contemporary music.  She has performed under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, John Rutter and Charles Hazlewood. Her now long-established artistic relationship with Carl Davis has led her to sing both ‘James Bond’and ‘Oscar Winners’ programmes with the main British orchestras, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Spain, with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.  Further engagements in the United States include James Bond’s songs programmes with the Jacksonville Symphony and The New York Pops for a Carnegie Hall debut next March.

Mary is also a regular guest with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin with whom she gives a variety of programmes including ‘A tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein’, ‘the Music of Leonard Bernstein’,  ‘Divas’, ‘Showstoppers’ and ‘Two by Two’. She has also appeared with the Ulster Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, USA.

As a recitalist, Mary frequently performs Serious Cabaret concerts with her pianist Philip Mayers, and has appeared at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (Kurt Weill), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (British music), the Alicante Contemporary Music Festival (broadcast live on national Spanish Radio), the Aldeburgh Festival, Djanogly Hall, Festival de l’Ile de France, the Louisiana Music Series, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Opera Butxaca and Maison de Radio-France. Mary has also appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie with Ensemble Oriol and at the Cheltenham Festival with the Matrix Ensemble.

She sang ‘Anna I’ in Kurt Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden as part of the 2008 Festival Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca and at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Spain. Mary will give a performance of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the Cadogan Hall in London which she also performed earlier this year in Berlin.

Mary is involved in educational projects and has presented Cabaret songs to hundreds of young audiences in the UK with the ensemble VIVA, with whom she has also given performances nationwide of her ‘Viva la Diva’ programme, a mixture of Cabaret and Jazz songs arranged for voice and seven piece ensemble. She is a much appreciated teacher giving workshops and masterclasses at UK universities as well as at the Opera Studio of Casa da Música in Porto.

Recording credits include Life Story by and with Thomas Adès for EMI, Britten on Film with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Peter Maxwell-Davies’ Resurrection for Collins Classics, The Truth about Love CD for ASV, The Best of Broadway for Warner Classics, a collection of 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.

July 2008