Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano

American mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn works in an eclectic variety of performance styles, from Purcell to Pierrot Lunaire, Cherubino to The King & I, J.S. Bach to P.D.Q Bach. She has been heard as soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke’s Chamber Players, the New York Collegium, the Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Rebel Baroque Orchestra, the Waverly Consort, Bachworks, L'antica Musica New York, and the Trinity Wall Street Choir, in concert repertoire including J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion and various cantatas; Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Dixit Dominus, and Messiah; Mozart’s Mass in C-minor and Requiem; Purcell’s The Faerie Queen and Dioclesian; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; Telemann’s Donnerode; Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten; and music of P.D.Q. Bach (with Peter Schickele). Operatic and music theater credits include Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Bradamante in Handel’s Alcina, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, the Little Prince in Rachel Portman’s Little Prince, Jade Boucher in Dead Man Walking (Jake Heggie), Lady Thiang in The King & I on the West End, and roles she premiered in Darkling (Stefan Weisman), The Perfect Plan (Seymour Barab), Moshe (Yoav Gal), The Nitrate Hymnal (Bob Massey), and Warrior Sisters (Fred Ho). She often performs new music in recital or in concert, and has worked with new-music ensembles including American Opera Projects, the Metropolis Ensemble, Sequitur, the Proteus Ensemble, Locrian Chamber Players, the Princeton Composer’s Ensemble, and New York Virtuoso Singers. She has premiered or performed pieces by composers including Peter Schickele, David Schiff, Judith Weir, and John Zorn. She is currently working with The Wooster Group on Francesco Cavalli’s La Didone, which opened in Brussels, was presented at the Edinburgh festival in August 2007, and will open in New York in 2008. Ms. Chinn grew up in Northern California and holds degrees from the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music.