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Deborah Claire Procter

Deborah Claire Procter (Cardiff, Wales, UK) is a singer, performer and multimedia artist. She gained her degree in theatre at the University of Exeter and afterwards her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Wales, Cardiff. Her performances have been shown in numerous prestigious theatres and galleries such as The Ferens (Hull), Spacex (Exeter), Hemsley Theatre (Madison, EEUU), and the Museum Theatre (Madras, India). She has worked with Theatre Alibi (U.K.) and received training with Gardzienice Theatre Association in Poland. She received the Creative Wales Award in 2005, and in 2004 she received the first of two awards from Wales Arts International that allowed her to visit Argentina and to begin training musically with composer-pianist Oscar Edelstein.

“To the singer Procter it is only necessary to be grateful to her for the opportunity the audience celebrated of re-discovering the incomparable and inimitable singularity of the beauty of the human voice. Her intervention [...] was simply dazzling for the technical solvency in the range and her versatility in having intervened in a work that demands superlative competences in order to translate the complex interior world that it expresses.”

Carlos Marín, EL DIARIO

“...concentration of the material and a distinctive sound... the strange dialect that the beautiful voice of Procter articulates, that seems to border on an articulated language, with the effect of the almost figurative swarming of these tiny words, more than with Pollock, the music of the ENS seems to connect with certain landscapes of [Argentinean] artist Stupía.”

Federico Monjeau, LA NACIÓN

“...the formidable Welsh singer Deborah Claire Procter (her voice acting as an instrument)...the ensemble accompanies an incredible intervention of Procter, a singer that is a sort of cross between Cathy Berberian and the free jazz vocalist Lauren Newton.“ 

Jorge Garcia, EL AMANTE