Deborah Rentz-Moore, Mezzo-soprano
Hailed for her "deep, honeyed voice" by Graham Watts in ballet.co magazine, 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, and Magnificat. She also works with esteemed Boston-area groups such as the Newton Choral Society, Chorus Pro Musica, Back Bay Chorale, Ensemble Très., and Musicians of the Old Post Road.
Although a specialist in early music, she also performs opera, oratorio, chamber music, and contemporary music. In addition to her performance in Mozart's Requiem with Pro Arte and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Ms. Rentz-Moore's 2008-09 season includes Bach cantatas with the Newton Choral Society, Charpentier's Judicium Salomonis at Boston College, Vieni Imeneo with The Boston Camerata, Baroque solo cantatas and Christmas music with Musicians of the Old Post Road, early American music with Ensemble Phoenix Munich, music of the English Baroque with Très., Handel's Dixit Dominus with Chorus Pro Musica, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera with Aston Magna, and the role of Virtue in the Boston Early Music Festival's production of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea
Ms. Rentz-Moore's recordings include music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Bach on the Musica Omnia label, Baroque holiday selections with Très., Monteverdi's Orfeo with Aston Magna (Centaur), and choral masterpieces with the Handel & Haydn Society on Arie records. A recording of Spanish baroque holiday music was just released by Meridian in December 2008.