Canadian soprano Anne Harley is a specialist in baroque music and an avid proponent of contemporary and experimental works. The Boston Globe has dubbed her ‘a compelling advocate,’ and  added ‘she boasts a naturally flexible, sweet high soprano.’ After completing 2 years at Boston University’s prestigious Opera Institute, she has performed with groups across North America and in Europe, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Boston Bach Ensemble, Musica Angelica, Musicians of the Old Post Road and The Neovoxer Ensemble. She co-directs TALISMAN, a group devoted to the rediscovery and performance of early Russian music, and in 2002, appeared as soloist on their first release on Dorian: Music of Russian Princesses from the Court of Catherine the Great. She appeared as the lead in the modern-day premiere of Le Pouvoir de l’Amour in a production sponsored by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and Oberlin College, and during summer of 2002, performed in Lukas Foss’ Griffelkin  with the Boston Modern Opera Project at Tanglewood.  Her operatic performances include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, the Countess Adele in The Count Ory, the title roles in Charles Fussell’s Cymbeline and in Noam Elkies’ Yossele Solovey which she premièred in 2000. In 1999, she made her European debut as the lead in Handel’s Acis & Galatea in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. For Musica Omnia she has recorded Bach Missae breves (MO 0203), cantatas BWV 62,140 & 192 (MO 0104), and the Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (MO 0101).