Among the world’s premiere countertenors, Drew Minter has appeared in leading roles with the opera companies of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston, Washington, Santa Fe, BAM, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Nice, and Marseilles, as well as Skylight Opera, Opera/Omaha, and the Berkshire Opera Festival, and at the Halle, Karlsruhe, Maryland and G¥ttingen Handel festivals.  Mr. Minter is a founding member of the Newberry Consort and performs regularly with My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort, ARTEK, and Folger Consort. With Trefoil, he performs 14th century music from original notation as a singer and instrumentalist. Mr. Minter is represented by over 40 recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Decca/London, Newport Classics, Lyrichord, and Hungaroton.  Mr. Minter is also a lauded opera director; this past year he directed productions of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte for Boston’s Opera Aperta, Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon for the Boston University Opera Institute, and Purcell’s Fairy Queen at Vassar College. In addition to master classes and workshops at Amherst Early Music and the San Francisco Early Music Workshops, he teaches on the voice faculties of Vassar and Smith Colleges.