Known for setting "a supremely high bar," (Textura) with her "mystifying simplicity," (Boston Musical Intelligencer), mezzo-soprano
Carrie Cheron's recent and upcoming performances include events with New Bedford Symphony, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, Plymouth Philharmonic, Boston Baroque, Monadnock Music, Portland Bach Experience, Boston Holiday Pops, Musicians of the Old Post Road, and more.

She is known particularly for her performances of Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, and other early composers, and for her performances of contemporary classical repertoire, including premieres by John Harbison, Benedict Sheehan, Francine Trester, and Marti Epstein. Appearing regularly with the GRAMMY®-nominated Skylark Ensemble and Lorelei Ensemble, she is a featured soloist on all of Skylark's GRAMMY-nominated albums.

Carrie lives in Boston and is a nationally-recognized performing singer-songwriter. She has been celebrated by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Great Waters Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, and Connecticut Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. She is an Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music.

This is Carrie’s first appearance with Bach Charlotte.

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Characterized by The Dallas Morning News as a “countertenor full and fluent, glowing on top, dispensed with the loveliest legato,” Nicholas Garza has been hailed for inti-
mate, engaging performances across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. An early music specialist, Garza has performed with ensembles including the Chicago Arts Orchestra, Ars Lyrica, ensemble viii, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Publick Musick, La Follia, Oklahoma Bach Choir, Austin Baroque Orchestra, Tactus Ensemble, and Mountainside Baroque, among others. Working with noted singer and conductor Simon Carrington, Garza was twice a singing fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival of Yale University; additional festival credits include the International Cervantino, Victoria Bach Festival, Big Moose Bach, and Hawaii Performing Arts Festivals.

Nicholas’s most recent appearance with Bach Charlotte was at WinterFest ’26.

Praised for his “silken tenor” (Opera News), Eric Finbarr Carey makes a series of significant debuts in the 2025–26 season. He appears at La Scala, Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Rudolfinum, Gewandhaus and the Ojai Music Festival. He performs Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, with the Gewandhausorchester, and at Ojai with Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Additional engagements this season as tenor soloist include Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Britten’s Les Illuminations, and Bach’s Easter Oratorio, as well as recitals with pianist Erika Switzer and a performance in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy led by Mitsuko Uchida, and a return to the Marlboro Music Festival. A particular highlight of the upcoming season is the role of Evangelist in three of Bach’s major works.

Eric is a prize-winner of the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, The Gerda Lissner Song Competition, the Sparks and Wiry Cries Art Song Competition, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Singing Competition. He has held residencies at the Marlboro Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Carnegie Hall SongStudio.

This is Eric’s first appearance with Bach Charlotte.

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Praised for his “gripping performances” by The New York Times, baritone Ryne Cherry is a regular with professional Early Music and choral ensembles. Ryne’s current season includes performances of Handel’s Saul and Messiah with the Handel and Haydn Society, J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor with Madison Bach Musicians, Bach’s St. John Passion at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, and performances with Lyra Baroque in Minneapolis, MN.

Recent highlights include his solo debut with the Handel and Haydn Society in G.F. Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Jonathon Cohen at Symphony Hall in Boston, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and a national tour of Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spaulding’s jazz-opera Iphigenia. 

Ryne was previously a Virginia Best Adams Vocal Fellow at Carmel Bach Festival and Tanglewood Music Center Fellow. Ryne is currently in his 4th year as Vocal Director of Just Bach Concerts, a Baroque ensemble based in Madison, WI.

This is Ryne’s first appearance with Bach Charlotte.

Multi-talented Ian Watson has been described by The Times in London as a “world-class soloist,” performer of “virtuosic panache,” and by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “a conductor of formidable ability.” He is the Associate Conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society, Artistic Director of Arcadia Players period instrument orchestra, and Music Director of the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

Ian has appeared as soloist (piano, harpshichord, organ) or conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Bremen Philharmonic, Rhein-Main Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Handel and Haydn Society, English Baroque Soloists, and The Sixteen, among many others.

He is in demand as a chamber music partner, and has appeared in recital with Nigel Kennedy, Iona Brown, Julian Lloyd and Webber, among others. Ian’s first major appointment was as Organist at St. Margaret’s, Westminster Abbey, at the age of 19, a position he held for ten years.

Ian was invited to be the assistant conductor, organ and harpsichord soloist, and continuo player for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage,” performing all
Bach’s cantatas on the correct liturgical day in places where Bach lived and worked. He has also been featured on more than 200 recordings and film soundtracks, including ​​​​Amadeus, Polanski’s Death and the Maiden, Restoration, Cry, the Beloved Country, Voices from A Locked Room, and the BBC‘s production of David Copperfield.

Ian’s most recent appearance with Bach Charlotte was at WinterFest ’26.