Fleur Barron

Fleur also solidifies her reputation as a Mahler interpreter, singing the Kindertotenlieder with both the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Torino; Das Lied von der Erde with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot and with the Britten Sinfonia; and Symphony no.3 at both the Palau de la Musica Valencia and the Colorado Music Festival. Other symphonic performances include Alma Mahler’s Fünf Lieder with RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Respighi’s Il Tramonto with CBSO under Carlo Rizzi and Mason Bates’ Passage with Nashville Symphony under Giancarlo Guerrero.
Highlights of the 25/26 recital platform include a French song program with Kirill Gerstein at Festival Ravel; a U.S. tour with Trio Afiori, a voice-clarinet-piano trio she has newly formed with Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien. The trio has a residency and concert at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center before heading to Reno, Portland and Eugene. With long-time duo partner Julius Drake, she gives concerts in Genoa, South Korea, Paris, London, Leeds, and Germany. Fleur joins the Australian String Quartet at the Helsinki Festival and the Parker Quartet at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Fleur also undertakes a residency with LIFE Victoria Barcelona, for which she performs two recitals with Kunal Lahiry and coaches the young artists.
Highlights of recent seasons include tours of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with both the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding; Schönberg’s Four Songs, op.22 with Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Claude Vivier’s Wo bist du Licht and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Barbara Hannigan and the London Symphony Orchestra; Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony; a tour and recording of Ravel’s Schéhérazade and Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria on tour with baroque ensemble I Gemelli, Concepcion in Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and Comrade Chin in Huang Ruo’s M Butterfly with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.
Fleur’s discography extends from Hasse and Purcell to Brahms, Barber, Ravel and Saariaho with labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Pentatone.
Fleur is committed to the way music can facilitate cross-cultural dialogue and healing. She is passionate about curating inclusive chamber music programming that amplifies the voices of diverse communities. Born in Northern Ireland to a Singaporean mother and British father, Fleur grew up in Hong Kong and later New York. She holds degrees from Columbia University (B.A. Comparative Literature) and Manhattan School of Music (M.M. Vocal Performance).