Brenna Wells
Soprano, Brenna Wells has been praised by the New York Times for her “star turn” as a soloist. She has sung with such acclaimed ensembles as the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Vox Consort, Seraphic Fire, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Boston Baroque, Opera Boston, and the Handel and Haydn Society. She holds her B.M and M.M in vocal performance and received a Post-graduate Diploma with distinction from the Royal College of Music in London. In 2005, she made her Carnegie Weill Hall Debut as a winner of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition and recently returned to Carnegie Hall, performing under the baton of Ton Koopman as a young artist in Weill Music Institute’s Handel workshop. Other festival appearances include Songfest, the Vermont Art Song Festival, Accademia D’Amore, the London Handel Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms, and most recently, the “Handel in Italy” program with the Parley of Instruments in Cambridge, England. Miss Wells performed and recorded the role of “Nymphe de L’Acheron” in Boston Early Music Festival’s 2007 production of Lully’s Psyche and will appear in the BEMF chamber opera series and festival production in 2009. Operatic performances from the 07-08 season include “Sandman" in Hansel and Gretel, "La Poesie" and "La Paix" in Les Arts Florissants, and the lead role of the "Christian Woman" in Delvyn Case’s world premiere of The Prioress’s Tale, which she will reprise for a touring production in the 2008-2009 season. She was recently selected as a grant recipient for the Anna Sosenko Artist Assist Trust and was one of two singers chosen to perform in the Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars under the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. This season she can be seen singing with many organizations including Blue Heron, The Sun's Darlings, Back Bay Chorale, L'Academie, Boston Secession, Exsultemus and returns to the Marsh Chapel Choir as a choral scholar and soloist.
