Ellen Hargis
is a specialist in baroque music and co-director of The Newberry Consort, a sought-after voice teacher, and a lecturer on historical performance practice. She has been a guest lecturer on historical performance, baroque gesture and movement, rhetoric, and opera at Harvard, Yale, The Juilliard School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and The Moscow Conservatory, among others.

As a soprano, Hargis has appeared with many renowned conductors, including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul Goodwin, Jane Glover, and Nicolas Kraemer. She performed worldwide in recital with her duo partner, lutenist Paul O’Dette, and has performed with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

A prolific recording artist, her discography of more than 50 recordings embraces repertoire from medieval to contemporary music and boasts the Grand Prix du Disque, the Choc du Monde, and two Grammy nominations for best opera recording. Hargis teaches voice for the Graduate Program in Historical Performance at Case Western University and is a visiting artist at the Eastman School of Music.