Lara Carr, soprano

Atlanta native Lara Carr became interested in Early Music just after graduating with her Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College in 2006 (B.M. in Piano and Voice Performance, Kennesaw State University, 2004). She fell in love with the style and freedom of expression of the pre-Baroque and Baroque period while attending a workshop given by Julianne Baird, and has had the honor to continue to study both with her and acclaimed soprano Laura Heimes. She worked under Drew Minter and Alex Weimann playing the role of Linfea in La Calisto at Amherst Early Music Festival, and she performed in scenes from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Richard Stone. She sang the role of Clarice in Il guioco del Quadriglio and Venere in a scene from Cesti’s Il pomo d’oro at the International Baroque Institute at Longy. Before her Early Music pursuits, her roles included Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring (2005) and Hero in Béatrice et Bénédict (2005) at WCC, and scenes from The Rape of Lucretia (Lucia) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Alice Ford) at Crittenden Opera Workshop, Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) at Harrower Opera Workshop, as well as The Mikado (Yum-Yum) and Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) at KSU. She has been heard in recital and concert in NJ and GA, and was a soloist with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, and the KSU Chamber Orchestra. Her teachers have included Laura Brooks Rice, Lindsey Christiansen, J.J. Penna, and Dalton Baldwin. Carr currently teaches and performs in the Atlanta area where she resides.

 

(Lara Carr joined New Trinity Baroque for the first time in March of 2009, in the program "Baroque in France.")