Meg Bragle
Mezzo-Soprano
“Ms. Bragle’s supple account of the Agnus Dei stood out as a clear highlight.”
— The New York Times
J. S. Bach: Easter Oratorio - BBC Proms 2013 with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists
Widely praised for her musical intelligence and “expressive virtuosity” (San Francisco Chronicle), Meg Bragle has earned an international reputation as one of today’s most gifted mezzo-sopranos, particularly in the field of early music. A frequent featured soloist with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, she has made four recordings with the group, including Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios – the vehicle for her BBC Proms debut − and the 2015 release of Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Read the full biography below.
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BACH “Agnus Dei” from Mass in B Minor
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PERGOLESI Excerpt from Stabat Mater
HAGEN The Lamb, Laura Ward pianist
Biography
Widely praised for her musical intelligence and “expressive virtuosity” (San Francisco Chronicle), Meg Bragle has earned an international reputation as one of today’s most gifted mezzo-sopranos. As an established early music specialist she has sung in North America and Europe with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Netherlands Bach Society, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and the Dunedin Consort.
As a leading interpreter of both Baroque and Classical repertoire, she has collaborated with many symphony orchestras in the US and Canada including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Seattle, Detroit, Toronto, Atlanta, Calgary, Cincinnati, National and Colorado Symphony Orchestras among others.
Recent highlights include her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Colorado Symphony, Michael Tippett's A Child of our Time, appearances with the Winter Park, Carmel and Bethlehem Bach Festivals and a performance and recording of Daron Hagen's The Art of Song.
Her discography includes four recordings with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, including Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios – the vehicle for her BBC Proms debut − and Bach’s Mass in B Minor. She made several recordings with Apollo’s Fire (Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, and L’Orfeo). Other recordings include Bach’s St. John Passion, the complete works of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem, Anthony Newman's Requiem, Copland's In the Beginning and the Five Borough Songbook.
Ms. Bragle resides in Philadelphia where she is an Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and directs the Collegium Musicum.