Canadian soprano Anne Harley specializes in performing music from early oral and written traditions, and in creating new works by contemporary composers. She has appeared as a soloist across North America and Europe with The Handel & Haydn Society, The Boston Camerata, Opera Boston, Opera Unlimited, The American Repertory Theatre, The Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada) and at the Tanglewood Festival. She has been oratorio soloist in many standard works of the baroque, such as Handel’s Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Bach’s Passions, Magnificat, Cantata No. 51 "Jauchzet Gott," Lutheran Mass, Christmas Oratorio, and Monteverdi’s Vespers. She débuted in Europe at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw as the lead in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and created the roles of Imagination and Zélide in the modern-day première of Royer’s Le Pouvoir de l’Amour in conjunction with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and Oberlin College. The Boston Globe acclaimed her performance in theAmerican première of Peter Eotvos's Angels in America as "vocally and dramatically outstanding."The Village Voice described her singing in the Boston Camerata's American Shaker program at Brooklyn Academy of Music as transmitting a "heart-wrenching purity." Her solo performances have been released on Naxos, Sony Classics, Dorian, and Musica Omnia, among others.
In 2000, she founded the ground-breaking early Russian music ensemble, TALISMAN, with Dr. Oleg Timofeyev (www.talismanmusic.org). Their first recording project won the Noah Greenberg award of the American Musicological Society and was praised by Gramophone and Early Music America. Since then, the group has recorded several more CDs of early Russian and Gypsy music and has presented programs and residencies at the Boston Early Music Festival, Harvard University, Yale University, Wellesley College, Brown University, and Oberlin College, among others. In June 2009, she was thrilled to play the role of Margaret Mead in the world première of the dance-opera A House in Bali by Evan Ziporyn, with libretto by Paul Schick, in the Water Palace Theater in Ubud, Bali. A graduate of Yale College, she received the doctorate in historical performance with a concentration in voice from Boston University (2006), and this fall, is delighted to join the faculty of the Music Department at Scripps College.
In 2000, she founded the ground-breaking early Russian music ensemble, TALISMAN, with Dr. Oleg Timofeyev (www.talismanmusic.org). Their first recording project won the Noah Greenberg award of the American Musicological Society and was praised by Gramophone and Early Music America. Since then, the group has recorded several more CDs of early Russian and Gypsy music and has presented programs and residencies at the Boston Early Music Festival, Harvard University, Yale University, Wellesley College, Brown University, and Oberlin College, among others. In June 2009, she was thrilled to play the role of Margaret Mead in the world première of the dance-opera A House in Bali by Evan Ziporyn, with libretto by Paul Schick, in the Water Palace Theater in Ubud, Bali. A graduate of Yale College, she received the doctorate in historical performance with a concentration in voice from Boston University (2006), and this fall, is delighted to join the faculty of the Music Department at Scripps College.