Canadian-American soprano Molly Netter enlivens complex and beautiful music, both old and new, with "clear, beautiful tone and vivacious personality" (NYTimes). This season includes the US premiere of a new solo work by David Lang conducted by Joe Hisaishi at Carnegie Hall and in Tokyo, as well as solo engagements with the GRAMMY Award-winning Boston Early Music Festival, the Grand Rapids Bach Festival, the New World Symphony, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the “Times Arrow Festival” at Trinity Wall Street, where she is also a current full-time member of the choir. Molly has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, Yale Opera, Heartbeat Opera, BOP Opera in Montreal, Contemporaneous Ensemble, the Staunton Music Festival, with Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center, and in Lorelei Ensemble, Seraphic Fire, TENET, and Clarion Music Society. Molly has toured internationally with with the Triplepoint contemporary/jazz ensemble and as a soloist in Japan, Singapore and Burma under Masaaki Suzuki.Ms. Netter holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and contemporary voice from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Master’s degree in early music voice and oratorio from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she studied with James Taylor. Between degrees, she taught English in Kyoto, Japan.
