Behind the Mirror is an artist led concert series devoted to bringing the best of classical chamber music to Berkhamsted,  working to promote wider awareness of a new generation of brilliant musicians and  composers, arranging and commissioning  new works and presenting them in a new light with storytelling and creative programming.

Founder of Behind the Mirror, Clare O'Connell is a performer, arranger and curator, and plays as a soloist and chamber musician.

As Behind The Mirror she has given over 100 concerts in 14 years including 8 new commissions from composers such as Edmund Finnis, Freya Waley Cohen & Luke Bedford, and she regularly curates for other venues.

Her debut solo album The Isolated Cellist was released by Stone Records in April 2021, and her second solo album of contemporary music with NMC Recordings which will feature new commissions from Edmund Finnis, Emily Hall, Nick Martin, Natalie Klouda, Alex Mills and Emilie Levienaise Farrouch is due to be released this year.

Clare is supported by PRS Open Fund, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Francis Routh Trust.