Elin Manahan Thomas
Biography
Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas' crystal clear and expressive voice is the perfect instrument for singing the Baroque repertoire she loves and for which she is renowned. “I’m a Bach, Handel and Purcell girl,” she declares. “They’re at the top of my list!”
Elin was a student at Clare College, Cambridge, where she studied Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic. She might have ended up as an academic, had it not been for her time in Clare College Choir, during which she realised that her real passion was music. In 1999, Elin joined the Monteverdi Choir for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage.
Soon Elin found herself singing for the Sixteen, Polyphony and the Gabrieli Consort, and her solo career began to blossom, aided by two years' hard work as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music.
Music
Elin has since worked with many of the world’s leading early music performers, including Harry Christophers, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh and Stephen Layton.
Elin's debut album 'Eternal Light', released in 2007, contains favourite arias such as 'Let the Bright Seraphim', ‘Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera’ and 'Lascia Ch’io Pianga’. She has performed this beautiful Baroque repertoire for many couples on their wedding days.
Elin made headlines in 2005 as the first singer to perform Bach’s aria ‘Alles mit Gott’ for almost three centuries.
Discography
2007 - Eternal Light
