MaryRuth Lown, soprano, is a recent graduate of Boston University (CFA '17, M.M. Historical Performance), where she studied voice with Aaron Sheehan and various aspects of historical performance practice with Martin Pearlman and Peter Sykes.
Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for her "clear soprano" and "tasteful dramatic interpretation," Ms. Lown is most often found performing baroque, renaissance, and early classical repertoire.
In her fourth season as a choral scholar with Music at Marsh Chapel under the direction of Scott Allen Jarrett, Ms. Lown is frequently featured as a soloist in the “Bach Experience” cantata series, and has been a soloist in Bach’s Passions, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, and the recently released recording of James Kallembach’s Most Sacred Body (Gothic Records). She can also be heard as the soprano soloist in the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s 2017 recording of Jeremy Gill’s Before the Wresting Tides. Ms. Lown made her solo Messiah debut in 2017 with Arcadia Players under the direction of Ian Watson and, in June, made her solo debut with Bach Akademie Charlotte in Bach’s Mass in B Minor, with director Scott Allen Jarrett. Other recent solo engagements have included Bach’s St. John Passion with the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, Telemann’s St. John Passion with the Harvard Early Music Society, Corrette/Vivaldi with the orchestra of Whitman College, incidental theatre music with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston, multiple roles in Cavalli’s Erismena and the role of Pallas in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione with the Amherst Early Music Festival.
In addition to her work as a concert soloist, Ms. Lown sings with the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus. She has been developing her sound as a choral artist through the US VOCES8 Scholars Program (2017-2019), and attended the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival in 2018.