Joélle Harvey

Joélle Harvey's recent and upcoming engagements include an appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall singing the role of Tirsi in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, with Harry Bicket leading The English Concert; Handel’s Messiah with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and the Handel & Haydn Society; Fauré’s Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra; and a program of Haydn and Mozart with Handel & Haydn Society. Season debuts include the Houston Symphony for Orff’s Carmina Burana and the New World Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She last appeared with Music of the Baroque in March 2018.

An in-demand vocal soloist, Joélle Harvey regularly performs with the United States’ great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has closely collaborated with a celebrated list of conductors, including Leonardo García Alarcón, Harry Bicket, Harry Christophers, Jakub Hruša, Louis Langrée, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, and Franz Welser-Möst.

On the operatic stage, Joélle Harvey appears regularly at the Glyndebourne Festival, with roles including Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute; her Royal Opera, Covent Garden debut as Susanna; and appeared as Galatea in Acis and Galatea and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Other opera performances include Flora in The Turn of the Screw with Houston Grand Opera, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Utah Opera, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Eurydice in Telemann’s Orpheus with New York City Opera.

A celebrated chamber musician, Joélle Harvey has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music @ Menlo, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, Cappella Mediterranea, Arcangelo, and the Pygmalion Ensemble.

Joélle Harvey received Second Prize in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. She was the recipient of a First Prize Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She is a recipient of the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant, and was also presented with the John Alexander Memorial Award and the coveted Sam Adams Award for Achievement in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

Joélle Harvey returns to Music of the Baroque for Haydn's Creation on September 15 and 17.