LAURA HEIMES

SOPRANO

Laura Heimes is widely regarded as an artist of great versatility, with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present. She has collaborated with many of the leading figures in early music, including Voices of Music, Andrew Lawrence King, ARTEK, Four Nations Ensemble, Tempesta di Mare, The King’s Noyse, Paul O’Dette, Chatham Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Pegasus Early Music, New York State Baroque, Brandywine Baroque, and Piffaro. Laura has been heard at the Miami, Boston, Berkeley, Connecticut and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, at the Oregon, Philadelphia, and Carmel Bach Festivals, and in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in concerts of Bach and Handel. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she appeared as Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and made her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus and has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony. With Brandywine Baroque she recorded music of René Drouard de Bousset, Jacquet de La Guerre, Clérambault, Purcell, Handel, and the Jane Austen Songbook, together with Julianne Baird. Laura’s additional recordings include Monteverdi Madrigals Books 5 and 7 with ARTEK, “On The Just Treatment of Licentious Men” (modern art songs by Peter Flint), Caldara’s “Il Giuoco del Quadriglio” with Julianne Baird, and The Queen’s Chamber Band conducted by Stephen Altop.