Addy Sterrett

Addy Sterrett is a vocalist based in Los Angeles. Her interests include sacred music, performing new works, and singing with choirs. Recent highlights include singing background vocals during Björk’s Cornucopia tour, LA Master Chorale’s staged production of Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien directed by Peter Sellars at the Salzburg Festival, and the premiere of William Cooper’s St. Luke Passion. A lover and frequent performer of J.S. Bach cantatas and passions, Addy was a 2024 Virginia Best Adams vocal fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival and the 2022 winner of the Linn Maxwell Keller Distinguished Bach Musician Award. Addy is a roster member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and has been a featured soloist with the chorale for Handel's Messiah and the Faure Requiem. She also sings regularly with Seraphic Fire, Bach Collegium San Diego, Evergreen Ensemble, True Concord, Tesserae Baroque, and Three Notch’d Road. Together with friends, she co-founded the collective Peasant Fylthe; a consort of voices and instruments exploring lesser known and less-than-sacred early music. Her voice can be heard on several film soundtracks (Twisters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, The Tiger’s Apprentice) and recorded albums (Seraphic Fire’s The Apple Tree, Yale Schola Cantorum’s Schütz: The Christmas Story, A New Age for a New Age Vol. 4). Addy is a graduate of Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music where she studied Early Music Voice Performance.