"... pristine transparency that speaks simply and directly. Outstanding." (Choral Arts Review, June 2007)

Recognized and sought after for her versatile, imaginative, and elegant musicianship, Miranda Loud, mezzo-soprano, performs regularly as a soloist with several orchestras and choruses in New England, including Emmanuel Music on the Bach Cantata Series led by Craig Smith in Boston, MA. Although an avid specialist in music of the Baroque period, she enjoys premiering and singing new works, and is increasingly sought after for her level of commitment to collaboration and performance. In November 2007 she travels to Portland, Oregon to premiere the song cycle The Wild Iris, dedicated to her by composer Forrest Pierce, who has said "Miranda Loud's voice is a dream voice for a composer of mezzo songs—clear, crystalline, agile, with riveting American diction. The heart with which she approaches the music is stunningly beautiful..." In September of '07 she was invited to perform on the Septemberfest concert series at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, in The Heart Poems, a song cycle by John Morrison who praised her performance as "remarkably committed and powerfully moving." She was awarded an "artist-in-residence" grant in 2006 at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada for her development of a multi-media concert Matins: Reconnecting to Nature and has been a participant in the prestigious Songfest program in Malibu, CA for two seasons, where she worked with composers Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon.

Ms. Loud has performed extensively as an organist, harpsichordist, choral conductor and producer. Her interest in innovative concert producing began in 1997 when she formed the Rialto Ensemble in New York City, dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration in concert programming. Her passion for nature, environmental issues and music inspired her to found the Rialto Arts series in Boston ("where nature takes center stage") which combines environmental awareness with concert production. Rialto Arts was granted 501c-3 status in August 2006 and breaks new ground by placing environmental issues and nature themes at the heart of each musical performance and through partnering with American Forests. The Boston Globe called Rialto Arts "The birth of a new genre...reaching for the tree-tops." She is currently working on a multi-media program about pollinators, specifically honeybees, with filmmaker A.G. Vermouth and a tap dance company for performance in the spring of 2008.

Her commitment to sustainable living and environmental issues led her to be nominated for an Environmental Leadership Award in the spring of 2007. She has been a guest artist lecturer at the Berklee College of Music on activism and ways of combining music with environmental issues. This fall she was invited to lead a two-day workshop at the Banff Centre Leadership Training lab for leaders from different disciplines.

She received her M. Music from Eastman School of Music in Organ Performance and Literature and has studied voice with Herbert Burtis, Pamela Dellal, and Carol Mastrodomenico, and is currently studying acting with with Alexandra Borrie. She has recorded for the musica omnia label as alto soloist in the recent Publick Musick recording of Bach's Four Lutheran Masses which received the following review in the June issue of Choral Arts Review: "Particularly noteworthy is Miranda Loud's (alto) aria... pristine transparency that speaks simply and directly. Outstanding."

Check out Miranda's interview 5/6/08 about arts and sustainability with Sanjay Khanna on the Realistic Sanctuary blog

Click here for resume as of October 2007.