Violinist Claire Bourg has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the world’s leading venues throughout the United States and Europe, such as Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Kimmel Center, Bremen’s Kleiner Saal,Pritzker Pavilion, Jordan Hall, and the Fryderyk Chopin University Hall in Warsaw. In 2021, she was a soloist with the Camerata Bern in Hannover, performing Mozart’s First Violin Concerto.

A laureate of many competitions, Ms. Bourg was granted the prestigious 2021 Luminarts Fellowship, awarded second prize at the 2020 Barbash J.S. Bach Competition, and winner of the New England Conservatory Competition. She has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the 2021 Joachim International Competition, the 2022 Kreisler International Competition, the 2022 Singapore International Competition, and was one of 24 violinists chosen to take part in the 2023 Concours musical International de Montréal. In 2024, she performed a recital in Brussels’ Studio 4 at Flagey as part of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition.

Ms. Bourg is a sought-after chamber musician, collaborating with artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Kim Kashkashian,Jorg Widmann, Ida Kavafian and Frans Helmerson, among others. She performs regularly with Musicians fromMarlboro, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Music for Food, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Curtis on Tour and formerly served as the concertmaster of Symphony in C in Philadelphia.

Ms. Bourg was a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival for three years and appeared at the Evnin Rising Starsprogram at Caramoor during the 2021 and 2022 seasons. She has also attended Festival Mozaic, Yellow Barn, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Taos Chamber Music Festival, IMS–Prussia Cove, and Gstaadt Menuhin Festival Academy. She has worked with composers Augusta Read Thomas, Jorg Widmann, David Ludwig, Steven Mackey, and Bright Sheng, performing alongside some of them.

Claire Bourg holds degrees from New England Conservatory, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School, where she received a Kovner Fellowship. Her primary mentors have included Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Arnold Steinhardt, and Joseph Lin. Currently, she resides in New York City where she is pursuing her Doctorate at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center under the guidance of Mark Steinberg. She currently performs on a violin byZosimo Bergonzi of Cremona, c. 1770 on generous loan through Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.