Melanie Germond, Mezzo Soprano

Noted for her "extraordinary bell-like soprano" (Gramophone), Melanie Germond is a founding member and co-artistic director of LIBER: Ensemble for Early Music (formerly Liber unUsualis). The ensemble has won several awards, including the 2009 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, and has performed to great acclaim across North America and Europe since 1996. Melanie sings a broad range of music, from medieval to modern, and has sung with such other ensembles as the Newberry Consort, Boston Secession, Composers in Red Sneakers, Musica Sonora, and Santa Fe Pro Musica. She has performed internationally at venues including Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany), York Early Music Festival (England), Galway Early Music Festival (Ireland), Festival van Vlaanderen (Belgium), Latvia's International Festival of Early Music, Viljandi Early Music Festival (Estonia), La Caixa Forum (Spain), Rencontres de Musique MŽdiŽvale du Thoronet (France); and in the U.S. at the Phoenix Early Music society, Cambridge Society for Early Music, San Francisco Early Music Society, Seattle Early Music Guild International Series, San Diego Early Music Society International Series, Milwaukee's Early Music Now, Early Music Columbus, and the Arizona Early Music Society. Melanie received a Masters in Early Music Performance from Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA) and currently lives in the mountains of Bisbee, AZ with her husband and two small children, where she teaches voice and directs the chamber choir at Cochise College.