Several of her recordings have won Gramophone, Diapasons d'or, and other awards, and her solo CD The Pleasures & Follies of Love has been chosen for honors by Germany's Musik Aktuell. Ms. Lane's operatic career has taken her to the Metropolitan, NY City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Palm Beach, Aix-en-Provence, Gottingen, Halle, Glasgow, Champs Elysées, Monte Carlo, and, in 2007-08, throughout Spain as Messaggiera/Speranza in Monteverdi's Orfeo, in celebration of the opera's 400th anniversary. She also recently created the role of Charmian London in Libby Larsen's acclaimed Everyman Jack, opposite Rod Gilfrey as author Jack London. Her career spans opera production and direction as well. She has produced and directed productions for Stanford University, University of Kentucky, Virginia's Blackfriars Theatre (like the Globe, a replica of Shakespeare's original), and at the Lake Placid Institute. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Texas, having previously held positions for nine years at Stanford University and for two years at the University of Kentucky. Students of hers have been prize-winners in several competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council, NATS, and Orpheus.

For more information please check her own website.

University of North Texas Early Music Program

With over 70 students participating every semester, UNT has one of the largest early music programs in North America. Regular ensembles include the UNT Baroque Orchestra and the Collegium Singers, the UNT Baroque Trumpet Ensemble as well as many chamber ensembles. Private instruction is offered on most period instruments. The instrument collection is large, numbering nearly 300, so that ensembles of nearly every era before 1800 can be assembled. Degrees in musicology with an emphasis in early music performance are offered at the masters and doctoral levels as well as a related field program for DMA and MM candidates. Ensembles have performed to critical acclaim at each of the Boston and Berkeley early music festivals since 2001 as well as in Texas and surrounding states. The group was chosen to perform at the Missiones de Chiquitos Festival in Bolivia, as well as in Peru, in spring 2008. Performances with other notable early music specialists have been a regular event, among them Richard Egarr, Jed Wentz, Monica Huggett, Bruce Dickey, John Thiessen, Colin Lawson, Paul O'Dette, Julianne Baird, Ellen Hargis and David Douglass among them. Major productions in recent years have involved performances under internationally known opera conductor Graeme Jenkins in collaboration with Fort Worth Early Music, Texas Choral Artists and Dallas Bach Society of Handel's Israel in Egypt, Jephtha, Samson, and Saul, as well as the North American premiere of Telemann's Der Tod Jesu. Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea was staged with UNT Opera in 2003 while Cavalli's L'Egisto was performed in 2007.

For biographical information on the players of the UNT please refer to the documentation that accompanies the album download.

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