American born mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle began her musical studies as a violinist. She studied both violin and voice at the University of Michigan before earning a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance and English. She also completed a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University. Hailed for her “expressive virtuosity” by the San Francisco Chronicle, her voice has been described as “memorable” by the Toronto Star, and “strong and sonorous” by The Dallas Morning News.
On the concert platform Ms. Bragle has sung with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Memphis Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the North Carolina and Canton Symphonies, the Akron Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Apollo’s Fire, Dallas Bach Society, New York Collegium, Seattle Baroque, Tempesta di Mare, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and has collaborated with the Mark Morris Dance Group in music by Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms and Stephen Foster. Other appearances include world premieres of works by John Zorn and Toby Twining at New York’s Miller Theater and the Concertgebouw as well as the premiere of Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano by James Blachly which were written for her.
Her opera appearances have included the roles of Dido and the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Amastre in Handel’s Serse, Ippolita in Cavalli’s Elena, and Elpina in Vivaldi’s La Fida Ninfa.
Ms. Bragle was named an Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine in 2005 in the publication’s yearly presentation of classical soloists on the rise. She was the winner of the first Young American Singer Competition awarded by the American Bach Society and the Bethlehem Bach Festival and was also awarded an Adams Fellowship to the Carmel Bach Festival.
Ms. Bragle has recorded Mozart’s Requeim with Apollo’s Fire for Koch, Cozzolani’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and Messa Paschale with Magnificat for Musica Omnia, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine with Apollo’s Fire for Eclectra, Music of Medieval Love with New York’s Ensemble for Early Music for Ex Cathedra Records, Toby Twining’s Chrysalid Requiem for Cantaloupe Music, Anthony Newman’s Requiem with BachWorks for Khaeon World Music, and Copland’s In the Beginning with the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte on their own label. A recording of Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne with Apollo’s Fire for Koch as well as Copland’s In the Beginning, with the Men and Boy Choir of St. Thomas Fifth Avenue are forthcoming.