Sylvia Leith, mezzo-soprano, is a soloist and consort singer based in New York City. She has appeared as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, the Oregon Bach Festival, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, American Classical Orchestra, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Cantata Collective, Riverside Choral Society, Princeton Pro Musica, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Baroque Music Montana, Early Music Access Project, and Emmanuel Music Baltimore, among others — in repertoire spanning from Bach, Handel, and Purcell to Mahler, Duruflé, and world premieres. Her ensemble credits include TENET, Lorelei, Bach Collegium San Diego, Ekmeles, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Musica Sacra, Ensemble Altera, the Crossing, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Her operatic roles range widely from Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring. With a special interest in one-per-part chamber singing, she is a founding member of the Polyphonists, a vocal quartet that includes her husband, bass-baritone Edmund Milly, and two of their dearest friends, soprano Amy Broadbent and tenor Matthew Hill. Sylvia holds a bachelor’s degree in German from Yale University and a master’s in Voice from Boston University.