With her “rich, smooth mezzo soprano,” Kim Leeds engages audiences in her exploration of life’s essence through music. As a soloist, she has appeared with GRAMMY® winning ensemble Apollo’s Fire, GRAMMY® nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Gramophone award winning ensemble Blue Heron, Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival, Les Délices, Cantata Collective, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Chicago Master Singers, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Bach Society of St. Louis.
Over the years, Ms. Leeds has garnered multiple accolades including winning the Tafelmusik Vocal Competition in 2016, attending the Carmel Bach Festival as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow in 2017, worked with Philippe Herreweghe as a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2019, and in 2022 was a semi-finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition.
As a choral artist, Ms. Leeds has performed in Europe with the Weimar Bach Academy under the direction of Helmuth Rilling and the Junges Stuttgart Bach Ensemble under Hans Christoph Rademann. In the US, she has performed with the GRAMMY® winning ensembles the Crossing and Apollo’s Fire; GRAMMY® nominated ensembles Seraphic Fire, True Concord, Clarion Choir; along with the Oregon Bach Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, and Ensemble Altera.
photo: Kim Melton