Elizabeth Hardy

Elizabeth Hardy is a regular both on stage and behind the scenes of Boston early music. She has served as performer and organizer with Helios Early Opera, Grand Harmonie, 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, and the Society for Historically Informed Performance, and was a founding member of 17th-century mixed consort The Weckmann Project. She is principal bassoon of the Austin Baroque Orchestra, and has appeared with the Handel & Haydn Society, Ashmont Bach Project, Newton Baroque, New York State Baroque, the Salon/Sanctuary Orchestra, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Caprice. Elizabeth also spent a season in New York playing reeds and recorders for Shakespeare on Broadway, the Globe Theatre’s Tony-winning, historically-informed productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III. She holds a Master’s degree in Early Bassoons from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, where she studied with Michael McCraw, and a Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory.