Kim Leeds

With her "attention-grabbing" (Cleveland Classical) and “rich, smooth mezzo soprano” (St. Louis Post), Kim Leeds engages audiences in her exploration of life’s essence through music. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Grammy winning ensemble Apollo’s Fire, Grammy nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Gramophone award winning ensemble Blue Heron, Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Choir, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Les Délices, Art of the Early Keyboard, Bach Society of St. Louis, the Oregon Bach Festival, Chicago Master Singers, Cantata Collective, Ad Astra Music Festival, and the Handel Society of Dartmouth. Over the years, Ms. Leeds has garnered multiple accolades including winning the Tafelmusik Vocal Competition in 2016, attending the Carmel Bach Festival as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow in 2017, attending the Snape Maltings Proms as a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2019, and was a semi-finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition in 2022.

As a choral artist, Ms. Leeds has toured with Helmuth Rilling in Eastern Germany as a member of the Weimar Bach Academy and toured Northern Italy and Southern Germany with the Junges Stuttgart Bach Ensemble under the direction of Hans Christoph Rademann. In the US, she has performed with the Grammy winning ensembles the Crossing and Apollo’s Fire; the Grammy nominated ensembles Seraphic Fire, True Concord, and Clarion choir; along with the Oregon Bach Festival, Handel and Haydn Society and Ensemble Altera. Ms. Leeds is also a co-founder of the New England based ensemble Filigree.