SUSAN JUDY (soprano) specializes in performing both early and contemporary music and has appeared as soloist at concerts and festivals throughout the United States. She has recorded both commercially and for a number of west coast composers, has premiered new music, such as west coast premieres of works by Steve Reich, John Adams and Otto Luening, and can be heard with the California EAR Unit on Sean Heim's new CD the night-speech of plant and stone. She performs with the Los Angeles Bach Society, I Cantori and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, where she has played principals in staged productions of both medieval and Baroque works, and recently appeared as Galatea in Händel's Acis and Galatea with The Baroque Orchestra of Iowa. She also works with American Bach Soloists and the newly formed Artists' Vocal Ensemble in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Judy is a founding member of the soprano trio Voxfire, for which she produces and performs concerts from ancient through commissioned new works, and with which she has produced the CDs Songs to the Virgin and Echoes. In April 2007, Ms. Judy and Voxfire will be performing Lee Ettelson Composer's Competition winner Edward Cansino's Women in Love in San Francisco.