Pamela Murray has
been praised by the Boston Globe for having a "naturally beautiful
lyric voice." Her solo oratorio credits include Bach's Magnificat conducted
by Seiji Ozawa, Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Handel's Samson
and Solomon with Emmanuel Music, Handel's Messiah, Faure's Requiem,
Mozart's Requiem, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Britten's Ceremony
of Carols, Schubert's Mass in G and Mass in Eb, Mendelssohn's Elijah,
Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, Purcell's Come ye Sons of Art,
Monteverdi 1610 Vespers, Stravinsky's Mass, Vivaldi's Gloria,
Carissimi's Jepthe, and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
Ms. Murray has appeared as soloist in Handel's Dixit Dominus with the
Handel and Haydn Society under the direction of Christopher Hogwood, a touring
program which included Chicago's Orchestra Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New
York. She also appeared at Lincoln Center as part of the Great Performers series.
In addition, she is a frequent soloist with the Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata
series. She is Artist in Residence with Foundling in Rhode Island.
As a founding member of Favella Lyrica, a Boston-based trio specializing in
early baroque vocal chamber music, she has received national critical acclaim
for recordings on the KOCH International label. Recent operatic roles include
Female Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Mrs. Gross in The
Turn of the Screw, and Cathleen in Riders to the Sea by Vaughan
Williams, all with Prism Opera.
Ms. Murray is also on the voice faculty at Emerson College, Tufts University,
and the American Repertory Theater. She has recorded for KOCH and Dorian.