Mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland gives detailed, stylistic performances of early and new music with “soul-infused expressiveness and unselfconscious joie de vivre (New York Music Daily).” Ellie is a core member of Ekmeles, a sextet dedicated to exploring microtonal tuning and extended vocal techniques, as well as the medieval ensemble Alkemie, and an invaluable member of many of the top vocal ensembles in the country, including The Crossing, TENET Vocal Artists, Lorelei, Ampersand, Variant 6, and Seraphic Fire. She has appeared in art song recitals with the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) and Philadelphia’s Lyricfest, as well as with Roomful of Teeth, Blue Heron, and Bach Akademie Charlotte, and this season she joins the Choir of Trinity Wall Street as a full-time member. Ellie has workshopped and premiered new compositions by composers Ted Hearne, Julia Wolfe, Erin Gee, Michael Gordon, Christopher Trapani, David Lang, Zosha Di Castri, Shawn Jaeger, John Luther Adams, Hannah Kendall, Caroline Shaw, Yaz Lancaster, Michael Gilbertson, Gavin Bryars, Joanne Metcalf, Kile Smith, Pablo Chin, L J White, and many more. In the world of early music, Ellie has explored repertoire ranging from the medieval to the baroque periods with Parthenia Viol Consort, Quicksilver Baroque, Filament, and Elm City Consort. She has been featured as a soloist with Apollo’s Fire, Contemporaneous, Arcana New Music Ensemble, American Bach Soloists, and Apollo Chorus of Chicago, and has sung for over 30 commercial recordings (including three Grammy-winning albums) and was a soloist on The Crossing’s Grammy-nominated album Boenhoffer.