Praised for her "heartbreaking" performances (Boston Phoenix) and "amazingly pure and lyrical singing" (Boston Musical Intelligencer), soprano Lydia Brotherton is in demand as a performer of repertoires from the Medieval to the Baroque. Ms. Brotherton graduated magna cum laude with Honors from Brown University with an A.B. in Music and received her M.Mus. in Historical Performance from Boston University.

Recent solo engagements include Handel and Bach arias with the English Concert and young harpsichord-directors at the Foundling Museum in London, BWV 194 and Rameau’s In Convertendo at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, BWV 29 with Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society in Symphony Hall, concert performances with Ensemble Phoenix Munich at the Prague Spring Festival, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Harvard Baroque Orchestra, BWV 75 and Schütz’s St. Luke Passion with Emmanuel Music in Boston, and virtuosic Italian and English madrigals with Laurence Cummings and the Handel and Haydn Society.

Ms. Brotherton has also performed with the internationally acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival in its Chamber Opera Series, appearing in Blow’s Venus & Adonis and Charpentier’s Actéon. She recently reprised her roles in the Summer 2009 Boston Early Music Festival and in recordings with the Grammy-nominated ensemble for the CPO Label. And, at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival, she also appeared with Tragicomedia, in a late-night concert of Monteverdi madrigals. As a featured soloist with the Boston Camerata, she performed at the Perth and Wellington International Arts Festivals with the Tero Saarinen Dance Company and Boston Camerata in the critically acclaimed joint production of Borrowed Light, for which her role was praised as "familiar yet fresh, exquisitely sung" (Dominion Post, NZ).

Ms. Brotherton has sung under Stephen Stubbs, Paul O’Dette, Jane Glover, Harry Christophers, Laurence Cummings, Ivars Taurins, Steven Fox, Michael Beattie, Edward Elwyn Jones, Scott Metcalfe, Martin Pearlman, and Andrew Lawrence-King. She has recorded for West Deutsche Rundfunk and Raumklang/marc aurel editions, Blue Heron, CPO, and Harmonia Mundi. Among her many awards and honors, her undergraduate thesis on Purcell’s The Fairy Queen was published by Brown University, she has won scholarships through Early Music America, Tafelmusik, and Vancouver Early Music Festival, she was a finalist for Le Jardin des Voix under William Christie, and she was recently awarded a U.S. Fulbright performance grant to study at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.