Brenna Wells – Blue Heron

Soprano Brenna Wells is known for her varied operatic and concert performances and has sung and recorded with such ensembles as the Boston Early Music Festival, Blue Heron, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Yale Choral Artists, and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has appeared in many festivals worldwide, including the London Handel Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, BBC Proms, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. Recent highlights include performances with Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Sammamish Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra Miami, St. Cecilia Festival, Seraphic Fire, Brookings Harbor Friends Series, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Ensemble VIII, Pacific Musicworks, and the Early Music Guild of Seattle. Brenna appears on the new recording of John Luther Adams’s Becoming Desert with the Seattle Symphony Chorale and in 2018-19 she will make her debuts with Emerald City Music, Capella Romana, and Music at 9th and Stewart, and return to the Aspen Music Festival as a Featured Artist with Seraphic Fire.

Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensemble’s accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States, Canada, England, and Europe.

Email List Sign-up