Elizabeth Packard Arnold
has received Doctor of Musical
Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the
University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of
Music. Her cognate and areas of special interest
are in Baroque music. She received a Bachelor of
Music Education with a concentration in voice from
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and
a Masters of Sacred Music in choral conducting from
Emory University. She has studied German oratorio
at the Benjamin Britten-Peter Pears School in Aldeburgh,
England with Kurt Equiluz, Ruth Drucker, and Alastair
Ross. She has also performed in masterclasses or
coached with David Adams, John Aler, Julianne Baird,
Elizabeth Colson, Kenneth Griffiths, Gwen Halstead,
Warren Jones, William McGraw, Richard Miller, Nancy
Walker, and members of the American Bach Soloists.
In
March 2002 she was a soloist in the Monteverdi Vespers
of 1610 (Atlanta premiere), and in April of the same year she was
a soloist in the Mozart Requiem at Emory University.
She was featured with NTB in programs such as "The Italian Handel" ( which included
the Atlanta premiere on period instruments of Handel's
"Gloria", discovered in 2001), Charpentier's "Messe de Minuit", Carissimi's "Jonas" and "Jephte", etc.
She
also appeared in early music performances with the
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Merry Band, the Gwinnett
Philharmonia, Ritornello, and others. Her many sacred
solo performances include J.S. Bach's Magnificat
and Cantatas 51, 100, 106, and 202, Buxtehude's
solo cantata Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe, Vivaldi's
Beatus Vir and Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's
Mass in Time of War, Lord Nelson Mass, and Missa
Brevis, Mozart's Requiem, Schubert's Mass in G,
Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Fauré Requiem, and
Saint-Saëns's Christmas Oratorio. She can be heard
as soprano soloist in Britten's Te Deum in C with
the Britten Choir (ACA Digital Recording CM 20039).