Madeline Claire de Berrié specialises in historical performance of music of the Renaissance and Baroque. Madeline has performed with Capella Sancta Maria, La Caravaggia, Laurens Collegium Rotterdam, The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Venice Baroque Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment, Neumayer Consort, Juliard 415 and Chamber Music New Zeland, Capella Cracoviensis, Collegium Musicum Riga and the Academy of Ancient Music and is a founding member of Grand Siècle. 

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Madeline has performed as Euridice (Euridice, Giulio Caccini), La Musique (Les Plaisirs de Versailles, M. A. Charpentier), Un Ingrate, Ballo Delle Ingrate, Monteverdi), Chorus (Juditha Triumphans, Vivaldi), Little Cupid,  (Venus and Adonis, John Blow), Euridice and La Speranza (Orfeo, Monteverdi), Female Plant/Formerly Enchanted Lady (La Liberation di Ruggiero, Francesca Caccini), 2nd Witch,  (Dido and Aneas, Purcell), Emmie (Albert Herring, Benjamin Britten), Amore, (L’incoranazione di Poppea, Monteverdi), Dido (Dido and Aneas, Purcell), une Prestresse, Une Matelotte (Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau), Hébé (Les Indes Galantes, Rameau).

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With a strong love of opera and the drama in music, Madeline has directed Pelléas et Mélisande, (Debussy), Orpheus et Euridice (Gluck), Les Plaisirs de Versailles (Charpentier), the Prologue of Céphale et Procris (de La Guerre) and Les Arts Florissants (Charpentier), as choreographer Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Ballo Delle Ingrate and as assistant director, Don Giovanni, (Mozart), Xerxes (Handel), Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc) Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Alcina (Handel), Jepthe (Carissimi), Jonas (Carissimi) and Euridice (Caccini), L’Egisto (Cavalli). 

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Madeline Claire de Berrié studied Music at Magdalene College, Cambridge whilst a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently studied at Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and BAROCK VOKAL, at the Kolleg für alte Musik (HfM Mainz) and is a participant in the 2022-2023 edition of the AVES programme at School Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland. 

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Madeline has a particular love of lute song and plays the lute, theorbo and baroque violin. In her spare time she enjoys climbing mountains, gardening and drinking tea.