Young mezzo-soprano Brooke Larimer is losing no time in making her contribution to the Boston area music scene. A recent graduate of The Boston Conservatory, Ms. Larimer's 2007 season includes appearances as mezzo soloist in the world premiere of Brandon Grimes's Mass for a Dawning Age with the Quincy Choral Society; alto soloist in the Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Vivaldi's cantata Nisi Dominus at St. Vincent de Paul Church in South Boston; a repeat performance with Opera del West singing excerpts of Baba (The Medium) and Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte); excerpts from Così fan tutte (Dorabella), The Marriage of Figaro (Marcellina) and Carmen (Mercédès), with Opera by the Bay as part of their annual Spring Fling concert; and with Boston Opera Collaborative as Sister Mathilde and cover of Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites and covers of the roles of the Witch and the Mother in Hansel and Gretel.

In 2006, Ms. Larimer debuted with Granite State Opera as Cugina in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and with Opera del West in scenes from The Medium (Baba) and Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame) as part of their inaugural production. In the New England premiere of Marc Adamo's acclaimed Little Women, produced by Boston Opera Project she performed Soprano Four and cover of Beth; with Melopoeia Musica, she performed Old Woman in Vaughn Williams's Riders to the Sea and covered Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas); and she sang Seconda Contadina in Le nozze di Figaro with New Jersey Opera Theater Summer Institute. In a workshop performance of Semmelweis, a new musical by Boston-based composer and psychologist Joseph Shrand, she created the role of Sonja, a young mother who dies from complications during childbirth. The young mezzo is also in the process of adding several roles including Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and Carmen (Carmen) to her expanding repertoire.

A frequent recitalist and concert performer, her oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart's Missa in C-minor, and Bach's Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4). Among other works, her recital repertoire includes Vivaldi's cantata Nisi Dominus, Shostakovich's Five Satires, John Musto's Shadow of the Blues, set to Langston Hughes's poetry, Poulenc's Airs Chantés and selections from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Rückert Lieder.

Ms. Larimer is an accomplished interpreter of new and twentieth-century repertoire. At New Jersey Opera Theater SummerInstitute, she was seen in excerpts from Milhaud's La mère coupable (Suzanne) and Corigliano's Ghosts of Versailles as part of the Beaumarchais Plus concert; and with The Boston Conservatory Opera Studio she performed Philip Glass's Ahknaten and Daniel Crozier's With Blood, With Ink. Additionally, she premiered works of up-and-coming young composers Michael DePaul (Songs of Youth and Yearning) and Lachlan Fife (The Prayers of God's Lost Children).

Ms. Larimer graduated with her Masters degree in Voice Performance from The Boston Conservatory where she performed excerpts from Carmen (Mercédès), Eugene Onegin (Tatyana), and Orlando (Dorinda) and was a soloist in Bernstein's MASS. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where she made her operatic debut as Second Lady in The Magic Flute, covered Mrs. Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor), and performed excerpts from H. M. S. Pinafore (Josephine), and Pirates of Penzance (Kate). A native Vermonter, Brooke currently lives in Boston with her husband, Jeff, and orange cat, T.C.