About

Clara Giner Franco is a flutist and performer specialized in contemporary music. Throughout her career she has collaborated with orchestras and ensembles such as the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Inverspace, Ensemble TaG, Holst Sinfonietta Freiburg and Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. 

She has been invited to festivals such as Lucerne Festival, ZeitRäume Basel, Impuls, Resis, Mehrlicht! Musik Berlin or ZeitGenuss Festival für Musik unserer Zeit Karlsruhe where she has worked with conductors such as Helena Schwarz, Baldur Brönnimann, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Beat Furrer, Thomas Adès, Sylvain Cambreling, Nacho de Paz, Jan Willem de Vriend, Vladimiri Ashkenazy, Christian Zacharias, Rinaldo Alessandrini or Markus Stenz. She also collaborates with composers such as Beat Furrer, Belenisch Moreno-Gil, Óscar Escudero, Hugo Gomez-Chao, Thomas Adés, Wolfang Rihm, Dieter Ammann and Tyshawn Sorey. 

She has performed as a soloist, in orchestra or in chamber music ensembles in different concert venues in Europe such as KKL Luzern, Kölner Philharmonie, NDR Sendesaal, L'Auditori Barcelona, Gare du Nord or Theater Basel.

In 2023 she finished her master's degree in contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel FHNW (Switzerland) with professors Susanne Peters, Sarah Maria Sun, Marcus Weiss, Uli Fusseneger and Mike Svoboda with the highest qualifications. For her Master's final recital she received the prize for the best Master's project of the Hochschule für Musik Basel for the year 2022/23. Previously she studied bachelor and master at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (Germany) with Professors Pirmin Grehl, Renate Greiss-Armin and Mathias Allin. 

She is co-founder of Duet 2.26 and since September 2021 she is part of Arxis Ensemble (Galicia, Spain).