Blair voice professor Hailey Clark is featured in her debut as Magna Peccatrix (Soprano 1 Soloist) in a new Decca Classics album release by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. Conducted by Klaus Mäkelä and recorded during two sold-out performances at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, the release is available now worldwide on all major platforms.
The Concertgebouw Orchestra was joined by five choirs—the Choeur de l’Orchestre de Paris, Netherlands Radio Choir, Laurens Symfonisch, and the Dutch National Children’s and Boys’ Choirs—and eight international soloists, including Hailey Clark, in an epic production that culminated with more than 350 performers on stage.
“Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand. I’ll never forget the feeling of sending high C’s soaring at the top of my lungs above the chorus and orchestra at the culmination of Part 1,” said Clark. “The experience of making music with hundreds of souls playing and singing at the upper thresholds of their instruments and voices, it’s undeniably transformative for audience and performers alike.”
