Soprano Carley DeFranco brings emotional clarity and vocal nuance to repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to 21st-century opera. Her favorite projects include the titular role in Theodora with Bach Charlotte, Anna/Dido in the east-coast premiere of Dido’s Ghost (Errolyn Wallen) with Emmanuel Music, a fully staged Les Illuminations (Benjamin Britten) with Urbanity Dance, and the west coast premiere of Lost Birds (Christopher Tin) with VOCES 8. A former Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music, Carley has sung over 100 Bach cantatas in their weekly series and has been a soloist and chorister in all of their recent concert and staged productions. Her concert engagements include solo and choral appointments with symphonies, choruses, and chamber music groups throughout the United States: recent performances include Hanna in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, Chorus Pro Musica; Brahms Requiem, Masterworks Chorale; Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Tate’s American Indian Symphony, Kirchner’s Songs of Ascent, Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, and Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Oregon Bach Festival; Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Symphony NH; Messiah, Music Worcester; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Lexington Symphony; Rossini’s Giunone, Back Bay Chorale; recitals with Monadnock Music Festival and programs that explore lesser-known Baroque repertoire with Sarasa Ensemble, Musicians of the Old Post Road, and Silentwoods Collective. A loving teacher, Carley is the founder of DeFranco Music LLC, which partners with local schools to offer music lessons, and a Voice Instructor in Harvard University’s Holden Voice Program.