Marjorie Bunday is a critically acclaimed oratorio and concert singer known not only for her “warm and pure-toned mezzo ” voice (Joe Banno, Washington Post 6/18/2010), but also for impressive range, versatility, and musicianship. She has been soloist (both contralto and mezzo-soprano roles) in, among many other works, J.S. Bach St. John Passion, B Minor Mass, Magnificat, and many cantatas; C.P.E. Bach Magnificat; Vivaldi Gloria; Duruflé and Fauré Requiem; Handel Messiah  and Dixit Dominus; Mozart Requiem; Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Monteverdi Vespers of 1610; and Mendelssohn Elijah, with choral groups that include Choral Arts Society of Washington, Washington Bach Consort, Catholic University of America Chorus & Orchestra, Alexandria Choral Society, Cantate Chamber Singers, Washington Choral Ensemble, Woodley Ensemble, and Washington Men's Camerata. Ms. Bunday appeared in 2007 with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado (singing Monteverdi) and Denver Bach Society (Bach's B Minor Mass). She has performed Copland In the Beginning  in six European countries and in the US with the chamber choir Musikanten. She has been an artist-in-residence with Helena Choral Week (Helena, Montana) each June from 2003-2009, and she has participated in multiple concerts in the Montana Early Music Festival.

Noted for her excellence in the early music repertoire, she appeared in 2004 with the English early music ensemble Magnificat (Philip Cave) in a quintet performance of Tudor music that was recorded for broadcast by National Public Radio's Performance Today, and an additional studio broadcast of early English carols. In 2005, she was again in NPR's Studio 4A with a pick-up group of musicians performing Mexican and Spanish Baroque villancicos for a Christmas program. Marjorie joined Hesperus (Tina Chancey) for an all-Buxtehude program in 2006/2007 (presented in DC and Geneva, NY) and again in 2007/2008 for a "Shameless Commerce" program of Renaissance music based on street cries (in DC and Milwaukee, WI). She is a regular collaborator with the early music group Armonia Nova (Constance Whiteside), whose repertoire includes Hildegard von Bingen and medieval through renaissance European music performed by voices, medieval or renaissance harp, and vielle or viol. Armonia Nova most recently performed an all-Hildegard program at DePauw University in Indiana, and then a medieval French program at the Washington Early Music Festival.

Ms. Bunday, in great demand as an ensemble singer, is a current member of the Opera Lafayette and Washington Bach Consort choruses (both period instrument ensembles) and the Woodley Ensemble (a chamber choir specializing in modern choral repertoire). She is active in a variety of recording projects, choir work, and church music in the Washington, DC area, including positions at Christ Church Georgetown and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (as a cantor). A frequent recitalist, she is dedicated to presenting new music as well as old and has added her voice to many US and world premieres of art song, choral music, and chamber music. Premieres where she was a soloist include music of Elizabeth Vercoe, Christopher Marshall, composer/mandolinist/recital partner Neil Gladd, Victor Kioulaphides, Richard Rice, Christopher Hoh, Terrance Johns, David Harris, Mimi Stevens, and Bohuslav Martinů (the US premiere of The Prophecy of Isaiah, more than 40 years after it was composed). The 2010-2011 season will include an October performance of the Monteverdi Vespers in Boulder, Colorado and 2011 appearances at the Montana Early Music Festival and Helena Choral Week.