Mary Carewe’s versatility ranges from musical theatre showstoppers and cabaret songs to contemporary music. She appears regularly with orchestras in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Scandinavia, and 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, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.  She will also make her Carnegie Hall debut with Carl Davis and the New York Pops in March 2009.

As a recitalist, Mary has performed  at such prestigious venues and festivals as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Alicante Contemporary Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, Festival de l’Ile de France, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Opera Butxaca in Barcelona and Maison de Radio-France in Paris. Mary has also appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie with Ensemble Oriol and at the Cheltenham Festival with the Matrix Ensemble, and sang “Anna 1” in the Spanish production of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins as part of the 2008 Festival de Musica Religiosa de Cuenca.

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