Maya Kherani

"Lithe and radiant" (New York Times)

‍"Pinpoint clarity and no-holds-barred declamation" (San Francisco Classical Voice)

From the New York Philharmonic and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence to Glyndebourne and the Aspen Music Festival, Maya Kherani brings "gleaming precision and impassioned conviction" to Baroque, Classical, and contemporary repertoire. Current and upcoming engagements include solo Handel, Marcello, and Vivaldi cantatas with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Václav Luks, Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and Handel's Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony; the role of GOVINDA in the Aspen Music Festival premiere of Theofanidis's Siddhartha, She with Robert Spano; a return to Boston Baroque for a Handel Summer Gala; a baroque cabaret program with Opera Lafayette and Nicholas McGegan; and Bach and Pergolesi with American Bach Soloists and Jeffrey Thomas. Recent highlights include her debut with the New York Philharmonic in Messiah with Ton Koopman; debuts at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and Château de Versailles Spectacles as DRUSILLA/FORTUNA in L'incoronazione di Poppea with Leonardo García-Alarcón, released on DVD; AUTONOE in Sartorio's L'Orfeo with Philippe Jaroussky at Opéra national de Montpellier; PIPER in Pay the Piper (world première) at Glyndebourne; BARBARINA/SUSANNA (cover) with Raphaël Pichon and Handel and Haydn Society; ZERLINA in Don Giovanni at Boston Baroque; Muffat's Missa in labore requies with Richard Egarr and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with Vancouver Symphony and Otto Tausk. Maya graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude with a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Boston University Opera Institute.