Corrine Byrne

Hailed as a "distinguished" "rising star" who sings "to great acclaim," and gives "delightful performances," Boston and New York-based soprano Corrine Byrne has quickly become a sought-after interpreter of repertoire from the Medieval to the Baroque era, and music by today's most daring composers. Byrne's most recent roles include Loralei (Mallory by Nathaniel Parks) with the Podcast Opera Company, Roya (We the Innumerable by Niloufar Nourbakhsh) which will receive its first full workshop at the Center for Contemporary Opera in 2021,  Filia (Jephte), Anna (Die Todsünden), Cathy (The Last Five Years), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Doctor  (The Scarlet Professor by Eric Sawyer)  and multiple productions as Anima (Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum).  Byrne was one of 40 soloists in a rare performance of Luciano Berio's major work "Coro" under Berlin Philharmonic conductor Sir Simon Rattle with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Lucerne, Switzerland, and she was a young artist with Boston Early Music Festival. Byrne has also appeared as a soloist with REBEL Baroque Ensemble, Symphony New Hampshire, One World Symphony, The Lake George Music Festival Orchestra, the Madison Bach Musicians, Mountainside Baroque, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Session Symphony, Westchester Oratorio Society, the Harrisburg Choral Society, the Kansas City Baroque Consortium, the UMass Bach Festival and Symposium, Capitol City Opera Harrisburg, Amherst Symphony, Bach at Bucknell, the Randolph Chamber Orchestra, the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, and she performed as a member of the Carnegie Hall Chamber Chorus singing Tallis' famed work Spem in alium with the Tallis Scholars as part of Carnegie Hall's Before Bach series. Byrne continues to appear with Lorelei Ensemble,  and was a full-time member for their 2015-2016 season when they premiered a new arrangement of love fail by David Lang at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and also gave a performance at the Trinity Wall Street Twelfth Night Series where Byrne was featured as a soloist in the New York Times acclaimed performance of Perotin's "Beata Viscera."

Byrne is a core and founding member of Ensemble Musica Humana, which has presented concerts across the U.S and Canada, has recorded two full albums, has appeared in the BEMF Fringe Festival and SoHip concert series, founded the Pioneer Valley Early Music Day, and has appeared on the BBC adaptation of “Poldark.”  Byrne is also a core member of Tempus Continuum Ensemble, a group that has received a Jerome New Music Fund award and has been presented by the Arts in the Village Series alongside the Manhattan String Quartet and the Boston Trio. Byrne works with trumpeter Andrew Kozar to broaden the repertoire for solo trumpet and solo voice with the Byrne:Kozar:Duo, recently featured on NPR and a nationally broadcast episode of American Public Media's Performance Today, and whose recording of 'Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World' was featured on Scott Wollschleger's 'soft abberation' -one of Alex Ross' picks for 'Notable Recordings of 2017' in The New Yorker Magazine. The duo has been presented by the Boston Sculptor's Gallery, Oklahoma City University, Versipel New Music, Southern Louisiana University, New Music Miami, SUNY Fredonia and Ethos New Music, Tulane University and nienteForte, Charlotte New Music Festival, and the Lake George Music Festival. Byrne has collaborated with and performed world premieres of works by composers Scott Wollschleger, Paula Matthuson, Reiko Futing, Alexandre Lunsqi, Beth Weimann, Anne Goldberg, Alex Burtzos, Kevin Baldwin, Reiko Yamada, Carson Cooman, Eric Sawyer, Scott Worthington, David Smooke, Phillip Shuessler, Meaghan Burke, Finnur Karlsson, Jeff Gavett, Chris Cresswell, Christian Carey and Alex Weiser.  She also has worked one on one with composer/director of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Marc Neikrug on his Pueblo Songs which culminated in a performance featured in NewMusicBox. Byrne is a core member of the groundbreaking vocal ensemble Cut Circle, and recently toured Italy with the group singing concerts to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Josquin des Prez. Byrne sings polyphonic mass settings weekly with the Schola Cantorum at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan under James Wetzel. In 2012, she performed at Gracie Mansion as a soloist with West Side 5 for Mayor Bloomberg and all of the New York City Council.

Byrne appeared on a career development panel alongside Kent Tritle and Damien Sneed at Manhattan School of Music, and has given masterclasses at Oklahoma City University, Wagner College, Florida International University, Randolph College, William Patterson University, Ithaca College, and Southeastern Louisiana State University. Byrne was a finalist for the 2012 Career Bridges Grant Awards, a National Online Round winner in the 2013 Classical Singer Magazine Competition, a finalist in the Handel Aria Competition as part of the 2015 Madison Early Music Festival, and a semi-finalist in the 2016 New York Oratorio Society Solo Competition.  She holds a B.M from UMass Amherst where she studied with Janna Baty and Amy Johnson, an M.M from Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Patricia Misslin and Mark Oswald, and she received her D.M.A from Stony Brook University where she studied on scholarship with Randall Scarlata. She is currently on faculty and serves as the chair of Vocal Studies at Longy School of Music of Bard College, and was previously Assistant Professor of Voice at Susquehanna University and faculty at Wagner College.

Byrne is a member of Beyond Artists, a coalition of artists that donates a percentage of their concert fee to organizations they care about. Byrne supports the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and South Shore Habitat for Humanity through her performances.