Sylvia Leith | Photo: Jack Colver, 2023

Sylvia Leith

Sylvia Leith, mezzo-soprano, is a soloist and consort singer based in New York City. She has appeared as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, the Oregon Bach Festival, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, American Classical Orchestra, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Cantata Collective, Riverside Choral Society, Princeton Pro Musica, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Baroque Music Montana, Early Music Access Project, and Emmanuel Music Baltimore, among others. Though known primarily for her performances of the high baroque works of Bach and Handel, she is equally at home singing repertoire of the Romantic era including Mahler and Elgar, as well as newly composed works. Her ensemble credits include TENET, Lorelei, Bach Collegium San Diego, Ekmeles, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Ensemble Altera, Musica Sacra, the Crossing, Skylark, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Her operatic roles range from Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring. With a special interest in one-per-part chamber singing, she is a founding member of the Polyphonists, a vocal quartet that includes her husband, bass-baritone Edmund Milly, and two of their dearest friends, soprano Amy Broadbent and tenor Matthew Hill. In July 2024, Sylvia is the alto in the Virginia Best Adams Masterclass quartet at the Carmel Bach Festival. Sylvia holds a bachelor’s degree in German from Yale University and a master’s in Voice from Boston University.
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