Rachel Fetler started her career in Boston, where she studied the bel canto style with acclaimed specialist Richard Conrad, and received a master's degree in voice from New England Conservatory. During her time as a freelance musician on the east coast she was a soloist at the Boston Early Music Festival, as well as appearing with groups such as the Boston Academy of Music, Currier House Opera, the Greater Merrimack Valley Chorale, the Hancock Chorus, the Saxa Versantia Singers, and Boston’s Schola Cantorum. She has also sung at benefit concerts for various Latvian causes, and in 1993 was invited to sing in Talsi, Latvia.

 

 Since moving to Boulder in 1997, Rachel has appeared with local groups such as the Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Children's Opera, Opera Colorado, and St. John's Cathedral in Denver, She appeared as Carmen Ghia in a raucous performance of PDQ Bach’s spoof opera, The Stoned Guest at the RMCMA, and performed at the Berkeley Early Music Festival with the French Baroque ensemble La Liaison.

 

Rachel’s stage performances include leads in such early music specialties as Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio, Purcell's Dido and Aeneus and King Arthur, and Locke's masque Cupid and Death, as well as a variety of Gilbert and Sullivan roles. She has two solo CDs. The first, Chantons L'amour! explores a repertoire that was hugely common in the 18th century, but is now almost forgotten: opera airs with guitar accompaniment. The second, When You and I were Young, consists of American popular music from the early 1900s and features well-known Boulder pianist Bill Elliott. Rachel currently teaches at the Colorado Music Festival and Center for Musical Arts (formerly Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts) in Lafayette, as well as at her home studio.