Ruby Hughes

Soprano Ruby Hughes is equally active in historically oriented performances of Baroque music and in traditional repertory from Classical to contemporary. She also has a vigorous career in art song, often with Julius Drake or Joseph Middleton as accompanist. Hughes was born in 1980 in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, U.K., and is of Welsh background. Her mother was the potter Elizabeth Fritsch. Hughes took up the cello and pursued the instrument for some years before switching to singing. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music in London and went on as a cellist t...