Praised for her “rich, smooth mezzo soprano” (St. Louis Post), Kim Leeds has appeared as a soloist with Apollo’s Fire, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Choir, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Les Délices, Art of the Early Keyboard, the Academy of Sacred Drama, the Bach Society of St. Louis, the Oregon Bach Festival, Chicago Master Singers, Cantata Collective, and the Handel Society of Dartmouth. As a choral artist, Ms. Leeds has performed with the Weimar Bach Academy, the Junges Stuttgart Bach Ensemble, the Handel & Haydn Society, Ensemble Altera, the Clarion Society, Seraphic Fire, and The Crossing. Ms. Leeds has garnered multiple accolades, including winning the Tafelmusik Vocal Competition in 2016, being selected as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the 2017 Carmel Bach Festival, working with Philippe Herreweghe as a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2019, and being a semi-finalist in the New York Oratorio Competition in 2022. Ms. Leeds is a co-founder of the New England-based early music ensemble Filigree. She can be heard on the 2017 Boston Modern Orchestra Project recording of Jeremy Gill’s Before the Wresting Tides and on Blue Heron’s Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, vols. 1 and 2.