Mezzo-soprano Anna Clare Hauf was born in London and grew up in Vienna. 1997 -2004 she studied singing at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, with professors Rotraud Hansmann and Charles Spencer, focusing on lieder. Hauf has a special penchant for contemporary music, both in an operatic context and in concert performances. In concert performances Anna Clare Hauf has collaborated e.g. with Klangforum Wien, Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler, Camerata Salzburg, the ensemble PHACE, and the recorder collective Plenum. She has appeared in premieres of works by Christian Muthspiel, Otto M. Zykan, Pierluigi Billone, Bernhard Lang and Lothar Voigtländer. In 2009 she also embarked on a collaboration with the Vienna Art Orchestra. As a singing actress and performer Anna Hauf appears regularly at the Wiener Kabinetttheater. She performed as a lieder singer e.g. at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Ruhrtriennale Festival.