Tessa Bonner (28 February 1951 - 31 December 2008) was a soprano, specialising in repertoire of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

[3] After leaving school, Bonner worked as a production assistant at the BBC on programmes including Blue Peter and Face the Music.

"[8] Prof. Richard Rastall suggested that Bonner, together with another Tallis Scholars soprano Caroline Trevor "may well approximate to the sound of a good sixteenth-century boy in his late teens.

[10][11][12] As a soloist she recorded many albums, including: Together with Deborah Roberts, Mary Nichols and John Toll, Bonner co-founded Musica Secreta in 1991.

[14] Penelope Shuttle dedicated a poem Under a sixty-year old crab tree to Bonner in her 2016 poetry collection Heath.