The Welsh soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas, has sung since an early age. A member of the Swansea Bach Choir and National Youth Choir of Wales whilst at school in Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, she won a Choral Scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge. With Clare Choir she was regularly a soloist, on the choir's many CD’s, on tours, and also on its BBC Radio 3 Evensong broadcasts.\r \r Since leaving her postgraduate studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Elin Manahan Thomas has sung with many professional groups. Since spring 1999 she has sung with the Monteverdi Choir, under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, with whom she has recorded several CD's, and toured as part of the choir's Bach Cantata millennium Pilgrimage. She performs in other professional choirs, such as The Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort, Polyphony, Ex Cathedra and Cambridge Singers. She also works in smaller, chamber ensembles, among them the Dunedin Consort, Concerto Delle Donn...