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About Elin
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.
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. See https://www.linnetbaroque.com/ for more details.
ARCATA la mode
Elin Harries soprano &
Carina Drury Baroque cello
The practice of peforming baroque and restoration songs accompanied by 'bass alone' is now much neglected, but was in the 17th and 18th century, considered a viable alternative to keyboard or lute accompaniment, creating a totally different soundworld as the two line, voice and bass, weave together.
Linnet Baroque
The raison d'être of the group is to present informative and carefully researched programmes of English baroqueand early classical repertoire, including music written for domestic entertainment,much of it undeservedly languishing in obscurity.
Also featuring the virtuosic ‘bird song’ genre, so popular in the operas of Handel, Ariosti and their peers.
ARCATA duo
Elin Harries Soprano &
Nathaniel Mander Fortepiano
perform English Canzonets and arias from the late 18th and early 19th century.