Mezzo-Soprano Paula Murrihy is a native of County Kerry, Ireland. She has participated in many young artist programs including the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program and those at the Tanglewood Music Center, William Walton Foundation and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Operatic engagements have included Boston Lyric Opera, Utah Symphony and Opera, Granite State Opera, and appearances in Monteverdi's Orfeo and the title role in Dido and Aeneas with the Handel and Haydn Society. Concert engagements have included the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, Gabrieli Consort, and the Charlotte Symphony.

Ms. Murrihy performs in Handel’s Messiah December 5-7 at Symphony Hall. She last performed with the Society in the February 2008 performances of Mozart's Requiem.