Elin Harries

Elin Harries was raised in a Welsh-speaking family in Pembrokeshire. She studied voice and harp at the Royal Academy of Music and continued her studies at Goldsmith's achieving her M.Mus in performance with distinction in her final recital. Notable teachers include Evelynn Tubb and Kenneth Bowen. A keen recitalist, now with her ensemble Linnet Baroque, Elin particularly enjoys performing with intimate chamber ensembles and has previously toured South Wales funded by the Welsh Arts Council. She also performes with her 1824 Erat harp, piano, also, frequently with harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander. Elin’s oratorio solo experience includes Monteverdi Vespers, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Magnificat, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson and Little Organ Masses, Mozart’s Requiem, Regina Coeli and Great Mass in C minor, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Ceremony of Carols, and Judith Weir’s Ascending into Heaven. Venues include St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St. John’s Smith Sq, St. James’s Piccadilly and Holland Park Open Air Theatre. Operatic roles include Susannah in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, solos in The Fairy Queen and King Arthur, Nekaya in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia ltd. and Nicolai’s A Night in Windsor Forest. Chorus work includes Madam Butterfly under Kent Negano with Opera de Lyon. ​ Elin’s singing voice can be heard alongside that of Ewan McGregor in the much acclaimed Miramax film of Jane Austen’s Emma. ​ She is a regular performer at Handel House with harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander. Other recent venues include Lauderdale House, Garrick's Temple, the Lovekyn Chapel, Orleans House inTwickenham, Marble Hill House, the Sir John Soane Museum, Forty Hall in Enfield and Vauxhall Gardens Tea House. Over the years she has also been a regular collaborator with The Stanesby Players, Follia and with cellist Carina Drury as ARCATA la mode featuring on Resonance fm, discussing works for soprano accompanied by 'bass alone'. Elin is the inspiration behind Linnet Baroque, the vehicle for her research into 18 th C English music and arias in the bird-song genre.