Alkemie welcomes a new core member!
We are so pleased to officially welcome our longtime collaborator, friend, Elisa (“Ellie”) Sutherland as a full-fledged core member of the ensemble.
Known for her “soul-infused expressiveness and unself-conscious joie de vivre” (New York Music Daily), mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland is dedicated to detailed, stylistic interpretations of early and new music
Ellie has previously worked with Alkemie as a producer of the Love to My Liking album and our “Florilegium” and “Love to My Liking” concert videos, and she is a featured singer on our a fine companion album, for which she also adapted the English translations. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have her wide-ranging expertise as an ensemble leader!
Welcoming Ellie Sutherland
Mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland gives detailed, stylistic performances of early and new music with “soul-infused expressiveness and unself-conscious joie de vivre.” In the world of early and chamber music, Ellie has been featured and explored repertoire with ensembles including American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, Arcana New Music Ensemble, Contemporaneous, The Crossing, Filament, Lorelei, Quicksilver Baroque, Roomful of Teeth, Seraphic Fire, TENET, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and Variant 6. She has sung for over 25 commercial recordings (including three GRAMMY-winning albums) and was a soloist on The Crossing’s GRAMMY-nominated album, “Boenhoffer.”
In addition to being a core member of Alkemie, Ellie is a core member of Ekmeles, a sextet dedicated to exploring microtonal tuning and extended vocal techniques. She has work-shopped 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.
