- Und das Bremer Barockorchester unter Leitung seines Mitgründers Néstor Fabián Cortéz Garzón erweist sich als eine höchst kongeniale und schier unterhaltende Begleiterin einer der virtuosesten Flötistinnen, die es derzeit wohl gibt.
Andre Sokolowski, Kultura Extra, 2024
Clara Guldberg Ravn (b. 1992) is a recorder soloist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 2023-2024 she was selected as one of twelve artists across all genres to receive the two-year grant in the career program Den Unge Kunstneriske Elite by the Danish Arts Foundation. On her latest album You Made Me Laugh (Arcantus 2026) she recorded recorder concertos by G. P. Telemann with members from Concerto Copenhagen. The album was mentioned as “a reference recording” (T. Baack, Heute Klassik, 30.04.26). She was engaged as a soloist in 2023 by Bremer Barockorchester, with whom she also recorded four Italian recorder concertos (Arcantus 2024). This album was subsequently nominated for Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Clara Guldberg Ravn rediscovered the flute sonatas by the Danish composer Martinus Ræhs (1702-1766) and recorded them in toto with Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Mats Olofsson (cello) and Jonas Nordberg (lute) as the first ensemble ever (Arcantus 2020 and 2022). Vol. 2 was nominated for the International Classical Music Award. Clara plays in the international Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet in 2025-2027 and regularly also with Concerto Copenhagen. She plays with the quintet Nordic Consort and is the co-founder of SOL Musikteater, which brings baroque music in uniquely curated formats to the next generations throughout Scandinavia. Furthermore, she is the artistic director of KLAR!festival.
Clara Guldberg Ravn graduated from The Royal College of Music in Stockholm where she studied with professor Dan Laurin. She has received numerous grants from Denmark and Sweden and in 2018 she won the competition EAR-ly for instrumentalists and singers in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Besides her education in Stockholm, she also attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon studying with professor Pierre Hamon and Rolf Lislevand.
