Clara Giner Franco is a flutist and performer specializing in contemporary music. She is the flutist and co-founder of Duet 2.26, with whom she won the Nicati Competition for Contemporary Music in 2023, and eeek ensemble. She is also a member of the Arxis Ensemble and the Holst Sinfonietta Freiburg.
Throughout her career, she has performed at international festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Münchener Biennale, Festival Les Volques, ZeitGenuss – Festival für Musik unserer Zeit, MITO – SettembreMusica, Festival RESIS, Ensems, Currents Festival, Rathenower Tage für Neue Musik, Festival Contemporáneo de Canarias, ZeitRäume Basel, and Impuls.
As a versatile orchestral, ensemble, and chamber musician, she has collaborated with Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Contrechamps, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Ensemble Ö!, Ensemble Inverspace, Holst-Sinfonietta Freiburg, and the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra (OBC).
Clara has worked under the baton of conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Helena Schwarz, Bas Wiegers, Daniel Huertas, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Beat Furrer, Thomas Adès, Sylvain Cambreling, Baldur Brönnimann, Armando Merino, Jan Willem de Vriend, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christian Zacharias, and Rinaldo Alessandrini. She also collaborates closely with composers including Rebecca Saunders, Beat Furrer, Luis Codera, Farzia Fallah, Katharina Rosenberger, Unsuk Chin, Francesco Filidei, Belenish Moreno-Gil, Óscar Escudero, Hugo Gómez-Chao, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann, Simon Bahr, and Tyshawn Sorey.
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, Yaron Deutsch, 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 her Bachelor and Master at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (Germany) with Professors Pirmin Grehl, Renate Greiss-Armin, and Mathias Allin.