Born in Papua New Guinea, Australian soprano Clare Gormley has adopted the US as her home since becoming the first Australian in almost thirty years to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1992.  She was a member of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program and thereafter a regular artist with the Company.

She made her professional debut in 1991 as a member of The Australian Opera’s Young Artists Programme and has since been a frequent guest artist with the company (now Opera Australia). Her repertoire with the company includes Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Alexandra (The Eighth Wonder), Blanche (Les Dialogues des Carmélites), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).   Other Australian operatic engagements include performances of Susanna, Gretel and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for the Lyric Opera of Queensland (now Opera Queensland).

Highlights of her international career include engagements with The Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as well as engagements with various houses in North America including Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Diego Opera, Tulsa Opera, the Canadian Opera Company and at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, where she sang the role of Marzelline in Fidelio.

Clare Gormley's concert experience is extensive and includes engagements with the Sydney Symphony, Musica Viva, Queensland Symphony, Queensland Philharmonic and Queensland Pops Orchestra.  In the 1997/98 season she made her Lincoln Center, New York, concert debut singing Debussy's Songs of the Baudelaire. She has also performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.

In recent years her performances have included Zerlina in a concert performance of Don Giovanni at the 2004 Bellingham Festival in Washington, Messiah with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Carols in the Domain in Sydney, An American Tragedy for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the chamber Opera Ashoka’s Dream in Santa Fé and the role of Eliza in My Fair Lady at Shreveport Civic Theatre, US in 2006.

Clare can be heard on several recordings, including her own solo CD of spiritual songs, entitled Where Morning Lies.