NANCY LONG

Besides being a founding member of Singcircle, Miss Long sang and recorded with the select six soloists of the London Sinfonietta Voices for many years, performing and recording many world premieres, including composers such as Berio and Birtwistle. This group was the artist-in-residence at Harvard University in the 1990’s. In 1984 she gave a well-received recital 'debut' at the Wigmore Hall, London and has given many recitals in England, Switzerland, Australia and Maryland.  Nancy has performed as soloist in the Aspen Festival, Innsbruck Festival, Flanders Festival of Belgium, Utrecht Festival, Festival in Erice, Sicily, The Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Bay View Music Festival (Michigan), Three Choirs Festival, and music festivals in Lisbon, Barcelona, Cheltenham, Bath, Windsor and Edinburgh. She has also recorded with the New York Pro Musica and the Huelgas Ensemble. She was a founding member of the New York Ensemble of Early Music and traveled all over America as a soloist with this group. Her concerts with the group Tragicomedia included the lnnsbruck Festival and performances of operas by Monteverdi and Francesca Caccini in Bremen, with Nigel Rogers and Harry van der Kamp. In spring 1994 they gave a concert in Geneva for a concert of Italian monody and English song of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Her solo CD was the first recording made by the then new ensemble in 1988 and was well received by the press.

In recent years in Sydney, Nancy was soloist in several Messiah performances, Bach’s St. John’s Passion and his Magnificat, Oratorio de Noel by Saint-Saens, Mozart’s Requiem, and masses by Hadyn and Mozart.