"Celebrated singer" (Broadway World)
"Inimitable delivery and meticulous nature" (Take Effect)
"famous for the ease with which she tackles the greatest difficulties of intonation and extension" (EarRelevant)
"Pursuing extended techniques with style and even levity" (An Earful)
New York and Boston-based soprano Corrine Byrne has quickly become a sought-after interpreter of repertoire from the Medieval to the Baroque era, and of music by today's most daring composers. Byrne is a co-founder of Ensemble Musica Humana and The Byrne:Kozar:Duo, and regularly collaborates with Emmanuel Music, Polyphemus, Cut Circle, Lorelei Ensemble, Symphony New Hampshire and the Westchester Oratorio Society; Byrne most recently appeared as a soloist with the American Classical Orchestra, the New York City Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, Lake George Music Festival Orchestra, the Kansas City Baroque Consortium, Connecticut Early Music Society, and the the Harvard Radcliff Collegium Musicum. She is a proud member of Beyond Artists, and supports South Shore Habitat for Humanity and Cares Foundation.
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UPCOMING
Byrne will make her solo debut November 2024 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players in Jordan Hall singing the world premiere of Kevin Siegfried's Three Shaker Songs, for two sopranos with Sophie Michaux
Byrne will appear as Miranda in the upcoming workshops of the The Onion, a new opera by Eric Sawyer |
NEWS
GRAMMY® NOMINATED:
Chris Cerrone's Beaufort Scales with Lorelei Ensemble under Beth Willer is officially nominated for a GRAMMY® for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Byrne is on 3 albums up for consideration for a 2024 GRAMMY® award: Cut Circle Josquin I: Motets and Chansons Jesse Rodin Director Jonas Budris Tenor | Corrine Byrne soprano | Bradford Gleim Baritone; Artistic Advisor| Lawrence Jones Tenor | Sonja DuToit Tengblad Soprano | Christopher Talbot Baritone | Paul Max Tipton Baritone Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Jessica Meyer: I Long and Seek After Lorelei Ensemble under Beth Willer Corrine Byrne, Solo, movement V. What Is Just Best Contemporary Classical Composition Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble (Lorelei Ensemble) Best Classical Compendium Chris Cerrone: Beaufort Scales Lorelei Ensemble under Beth Willer Best Contemporary Classical Composition Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble (Lorelei Ensemble) Best Engineered Album, Classical Byrne traveled to Belgium with Cut Circle to perform at the Laus Polyphoniae festival in August 2024, in addition to recording the next CD as part of Cut Circle's project to record all of Josquin's catalogue over 12 discs Byrne made her Carnegie Hall debut in March 2023 singing as the soloist in the Rutter Requiem with the New York Chamber Orchestra and Masterworks Festival chorus, and returned as the soprano soloist for Mozart's Coronation Mass in April 2024 Circle new album: Josquin I: Motets & Chansons Editor's Choice in Gramphone Magazine "Best New Classical Recordings" Runner up for 2024 Gramophone Award in Early Music Category Alex Ross' of The New Yorker After Nightafternight Playlist Byrne made her solo debut at Bachfest Leipzig in June 2024 with Emmanuel Music Byrne:Kozar:Duo's debut album "It Floats Away from You" released August 2023 recently featured on American Public Media's Performance Today and NPR Byrne made her Boston Ballet debut singing on the world premiere project Our Journey at the Boston Opera House in April 2023 |
photography by Jessica Osber