Carley DeFranco
Soprano
Described as “sunny,” “supple,” and “soaring,” soprano Carley DeFranco gives meaningful and embodied performances. Recent projects include the titular role in Theodora with Bach Charlotte 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. She is a guest soloist with many choruses, orchestras, and early and chamber music organizations throughout the US and regularly performs with Boston Lyric Opera, Oregon Bach Festival, Sarasa Ensemble, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Handel & Haydn Society, Ensemble Altera, and the Harvard Choruses. 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.