Cheryl Ryder has worked with Canto Armonico since 2003, after serving for thirty-two years at The Church of the Advent in Boston as singer, editor of many motets, and substitute conductor and organist. A graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard and Boston universities, she is co-founder of Boston’s Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, and has been a frequent visitor to Leipzig since the Bach-Year 1985.