Hailed for her “deep, honeyed voice” (Graham Watts, Ballet.co Magazine) and “low tones of awesome resonance” (Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe), mezzo-soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore performs with some of the most celebrated ensembles in North America, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, The Boston Camerata, The Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna, New York Collegium, Magnificat, and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Oratorio engagements include acclaimed performances in Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s St. John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Mozart’s Requiem, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabeus. Ms. Rentz-Moore has garnered international praise for her work with The Boston Camerata and Tero Saarinen Dance Company in “Borrowed Light”.

Operatic roles include Catherine in Rudenstein’s Grace, Speranza in Aston Magna’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and a critically lauded 2005 performance of The Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas with the Handel & Haydn Society. This season, she reprised the role of Diana in a zarzuela by Duron with Aston Magna, sings Second Lady in Emmanuel Music’s production of The Magic Flute, and will record the role of Speranza in Orfeo for Aston Magna.

This season also features Ms. Rentz-Moore in concert with the Baroque ensemble Très., the Concord Chorale, Masterworks Chorale and The Carthage Consort of viols. Recordings include Cozzolani’s Messa Paschale with Magnificat (on Musica Omnia), “The Golden Harvest” with The Boston Camerata (Shaker music on Glissando), “The Music of Peace,” with H&H (Arie Records) and “Sleepers, Wake! Holidays in the Company of J.S. Bach” with The Publick Music (Musica Omnia), to be released in July 2006.

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