American Soprano, Susan Consoli has led an active and versatile career throughout the United States and abroad from Bach to Harbison to Gershwin. She has worked under such notable conductors as Grant Llewellyn, Paul Goodwin, Harry Christophers, Bruno Weil, Laurence Cummings, Odaline (Chachi) de la Martinez, David Angus, Craig Smith, David Alan Miller and John Finney. Additional collaborations include directors/choreographers Chen Shi-Zheng, Tero Saarinen and Betsi Graves, composers Carson Cooman, Peter Child, David Patterson and John Harbison Boston premiere A Clear Midnight andVocalism. Festivals include: Festival CLASSIQUE au vert, Boston Early Music Festival, Movimentos Internationales TanzFestival,LAOKOON Festival, Ribeauvillé Festival de Musique Ancienne, Carmel Bach Festival, Rome Opera Festival, Great Waters Music Festival. Appearances with Boston Camerata & Tero Saarinen Dance Company include: Borrowed Light in Paris Théâtre National de Chaillot, Berlin, Hamburg, Wolfsburg, Oulu, Tampere, An American Vocalist, Saw ye my heroin Paris,Travellin’ Home in Ribeauvillé.
Ms. Consoli made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Handel Messiah under the direction of Chris Shepard with Masterwork Chorus. Ms. Consoli’s Emmanuel Music highlights include: Beethoven Ah perfido!, Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito, Handel Apollo e Dafne, Bach Mass inB Minor, Handel Alexander’s Feast, Bach Phoebus and Pan with Urbanity Dance, Bach St. Mark Passion, Bach St. Matthew Passionand over fifty Bach cantatas. Ms. Consoli was the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for the 2010-2011 season. Ms. Consoli’s recordings include Handel & Haydn Society All is Bright Avie Records and David Patterson Loon’s Tail Flashing Albany Records. This season’s solo engagements include: Harbison premiere “Eight Recent Jazzsinger Songs” with John Harbison, Handel Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day with Emmanuel Music under the direction of Ryan Turner,Mozart Requiemwith Masterworks Chorale under the direction of Kevin Leong, Bach Magnificat, BWV 1, 51 with Worcester Chorus under the direction of Chris Shepard, a Carson Cooman premiere with the Commonwealth Chorale under the direction of David Carrier, Mozart Mass in C Minor with the New Hampshire Music Festival. Ms. Consoli resides north of Boston with her husband and their two children.