West has performed for many years with Emmanuel Music, notably in their Sunday Cantata Series, Emmanuel Music’s Chamber Series, and in Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Handel’s Hercules, Saul, Jephtha, Brockes Passion and Ariodante, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Haydn’s Creation.

West sang the role of Countess Almaviva in Craig Smith’s and Peter Sellars’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro in New York, Boston, Barcelona, Paris, and Vienna where it was filmed and broadcast for “Great Performances.” West premiered Mark Morris Dance Group’s productions of L’Allegro, il moderato ed il pensiero and Dido and Aeneas in Brussels, Belgium, “Stephen Foster Songs” in Boston, and Virgil Thompson’s Four Saints in Three Acts in Berkeley, Calif.

Recent performances include two recitals with the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society in works by Hugo Wolff and Charles Loeffler and her second performance with Landmarks Orchestra of Boston at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade in Boston in “Solveig’s Song” and “Solveig’s Vuggevise” from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg.

West has recorded for MusicMasters, Decca/Argo, London Records, Newport Classics, Koch, and Hyperion. She is most recently heard on the posthumously released recording “Lorraine at Emmanuel” in duet with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Also faculty of Longy School of Music of Bard College.