Catherine Hedberg
A versatile performer with experience in a wide range of genres and periods, mezzo-soprano Catherine Hedberg has a particular passion for early repertoire and new music. She is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society, with whom she has appeared as a soloist in works including JS Bach’s B Minor Mass, Magnificat, and various cantatas. She has been a frequent collaborator with the chamber ensemble, Musicians of the Old Post Road, and appears on the ensemble’s recording of Christmas music from 18th c. Central and South America. She toured the US with the Boston Camerata in their production A Symphony of Psalms, and has appeared as soloist with Newport Baroque Orchestra, Handel Society at Dartmouth College, True Concord, Boston’s Cantata Singers, and others. On the opera stage, she has performed the roles of Olga (Eugene Onegin) and Mercedes (Carmen), appeared in the world premiere chamber version of Michael Gordon’s Acquanetta (Prototype Festival) with Bang on a Can All Stars, and in a performance of excerpts from Nathan Davis’ opera Hagoromo with the International Contemporary Ensemble.