The soprano Ann Monoyios concertizes extensively throughout Europe and North America in a wide variety of repertory including opera, oratorio, chamber music and recitals. In concert engagements she has collaborated with the leading Baroque specialists of the world including Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Reinhard Goebel and Nicholas McGegan. She has been featured soloist on tours in Europe and the Far East with Tafelmusik Orchestra and can be heard as soprano soloist on their recordings of Haydn sacred works for Sony Vivarte, from which the recording of The Creation has been singled out for particularly high praise. She has been guest soloist with many symphony orchestras in North America, among them Montreal, Houston, San Francisco, San Antonio, Edmonton and Calgary, as well as the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa.
As a baroque specialist, Ann Monoyios has appeared throughout Europe in numerous productions of baroque operas. Her most interesting collaborations have been performing Lully’s Atys at the Paris Opéra with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Handel’s Alcina with Jos van Immerseel in Antwerp and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen conducted by Trevor Pinnock in Lisbon. She can be heard on many record labels, among them Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, Sony Vivarte, EMI, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Erato. Her favourite recordings include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner for Deutsche Grammophon and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, also with John Eliot Gardiner.