Julianne Baird (born 1952) is an American soubrette and early music soprano. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Theatre de la Monnaie, Bach Festival Leipzig amongst many. She has recorded with Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner, Joshua Rifkin and sung on five of the world’s continents in both opera and Sacred Music. She has more than 100 recordings to her credit and is a well-traveled recitalist and soloist with major symphony orchestras. She is also a noted teacher of voice.

Julianne Baird
Born (1952-12-10) December 10, 1952 (age 71)
Statesville, North Carolina[1]
GenresOpera, Baroque
Occupation(s)Singer, voice professor
InstrumentVocals

Biography

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Baird grew up in Kent, Ohio, graduating from Kent's Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970.[2] She studied voice and Musicology at the Eastman School of Music,[2] earned a Diploma in Performance Practice from the Salzburg Mozarteum, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Musicology from Stanford University.[2]

Baird has been a Distinguished professor at Rutgers University since 2000. She directs a Madrigal Ensemble and teaches a wide array of classes such as History of Opera, Renaissance and Baroque Music. She frequently teaches master classes and workshops throughout the United States. She published an annotated translation of the 18th-century treatise, Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

As a performer, she is best known for her extensive discography and for performances of music by Johann Sebastian Bach (especially the B-minor Mass, the Magnificat, and a number of cantatas) and George Frideric Handel (especially Messiah). She has made premiere recordings of a number of Handel operas (including Deidamia, Siroe, Muzio Scevola, Sosarme, and Berenice). She has also sung works by Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi, and Georg Philipp Telemann. Modern American composers whose music she has recorded include Lukas Foss and Steve Reich.

Recordings

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Complete Operas

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Year Composer Title Conductor/Orchestra Role Publisher Format Other Notes
1986 Handel Imeneo Rudolph Palmer Brewer Baroque Orchestra Rosmene Vox CD

Digital

First Recording
1987 Monteverdi L’Orfeo John Eliot Gardiner Monteverdi Choir: The English Baroque Soloists Euridice Archiv CD

Digital

1990 Telemann Pimpinone Rudolph PalmerBaroque Orchestra of St. Luke Vespetta Newport Classic CD

Digital

1991 Handel Siroe Rudolph Palmer Brewer Baroque Orchestra Emira Newport Classic CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1991 Handel Muzio Scevola Rudolph Palmer Brewer Baroque Orchestra Clelia Newport Classic CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1993 Pergolesi La Serva Padrona Rudolph Palmer Philomel Baroque Orchestra Serpina Omega Record Classics CD

Digital

1994 Handel Sosarme Johannes Somary

Amor Artis Orchestra

Elmira Newport Classic CD

Digital

1994 Purcell Dido and Aeneas Christopher HogwoodAcademy of Ancient Music Second

Woman

Decca L’Oiseau-Lyre CD

Digital

1994 Handel Berenice Rudolph Palmer

Brewer Baroque Orchestra

Berenice Newport Classic CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1994 Purcell Dido and AeneasThe Indian Queen Christopher HogwoodAcademy of Ancient Music Second

Woman

Decca:

L’Oiseau-Lyre

CD

Digital

1995 Handel Ezio Richard Auldon ClarkManhattan Chamber Orchestra Fulvia Vox CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1996 Handel Faramondo Rudolph Palmer Brewer Baroque Orchestra Clotilde Vox CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1997 Lukas Foss The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Richard Auldon ClarkManhattan Chamber Orchestra Miss Lulu Newport Classic CD

Digital

2001 Handel Deidamia Rudolph Palmer Brewer Baroque Orchestra Deidamia Albany CD Premiere

Recording

2004 Gluck Il Parnaso Confuso Rudolph Palmer The Queen’s Chamber Band Melpomene Albany Records CD Premiere

Recording

2005 Gluck La Corona Rudolph Palmer The Queen’s Chamber Band Atalanta Albany Records CD First CD Recording
2007 Purcell Dido and Aeneas Valentin RaduAma Deus Baroque Ensemble Dido Lyrichord CD Title Role

J.S. Bach Cantatas, Passions and Masses-Complete Works

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Title Conductor/Orchestra Publisher Format Other Notes
1982 B minor Mass BWV 232 Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Nonesuch CD

DigitalOVPP

LP and Audio Cassette
1982 Magnificat BWV 243 Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Pro Arte Records CD

DigitalOVPP

Audio Cassette
1986 St. John Passion BWV 245 Anthony NewmanBrandenburg Collegium Newport Classic CD

Digital

Audio Cassette
1987 Cantatas BWV 140 BWV 51“Jauchzet Gott” Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre CD Digital

OVPP

Audio Cassette
1989 Cantatas BWV 202, BWV 209 Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre

Solo Cantatas

CD

Digital

Soprano Cantatas
1989 BWV 8, BWV 78, BWV 99 Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre

OVPP

CD

Digital

Audio cassette
1990 BWV 147, BWV 80, BWV 8, BWV 140 BWV 51, BWV 78 Joshua Rifkin:The Bach Ensemble Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre

OVPP

CD

Digital

1990 St. John Passion BWV 245 Kenneth SlowikSmithsonian Chamber Players and Smithsonian Chamber Chorus Smithsonian Recordings CD

Digital

1992 TrauerodeBWV 8, BWV 156BWV 198 Jeffrey Thomas

American Bach Soloists

Koch Intl CD

Digital

Volume 2
1992 Solo Cantatas BWV 51, BWV 54, BWV 55 BWV 82 Jeffrey Thomas

American Bach Soloists

Koch Intl CD

Digital

1995 “Cantatas from Mühlhausen and Weimar”BWV 12, BWV 18, BWV 61 Jeffrey Thomas

American Bach Soloists

Koch Intl CD

Digital

Volume 5
1996 Magnificat BWV 243 Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble Vox Classics CD

Digital

1996 B minor Mass BWV 232 Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble Vox Classics CD

Digital

1997 6 Favourite Cantatas Joshua Rifkin:The Bach Ensemble L’Oiseau-Lyre CD

OVPP

1998 Actus Tragicus Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Decca CD

OVPP

Select Cantatas
1998 Sacred Cantatas Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble Naxos DigitalOVPP Online

Digital Library

2011 101 Bach Joshua RifkinThe Bach Ensemble Decca Digital

OVPP

6 CD set

Oratorios

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Year Composer Title Conductor/Orchestra Role Publisher Format Other Notes
1988 Handel Acis and Galatea Johannes Somary

Amor Artis Orchestra

Galatea Newport Classic CD

Digital

Cassette

Digital

1991 Handel Joshua Rudolph Palmer /Brewer Baroque Orchestra Achsah Newport Classic CD

Digital

1993 Scarlatti Ishmael Rudolph Palmer /Brewer Baroque Orchestra Ismaele Newport Classic CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1991 HandelVivaldi Dixit Dominus James LittonAmerican Boy Choir Musical Heritage CD

Digital

Premiere

Recording

1996 Handel Acis and Galatea Valentin RaduAma Deus Baroque Ensemble Galatea Vox CD

Digital

1997 Vivaldi Magnificat

Gloria

Valentin RaduAma Deus Baroque Ensemble Newport Classic CD

Digital

1997 Handel Alexander Balus Rudolph Palmer

Philomel Baroque Orchestra

Cleopatra Newport Classic CD

Digital

1994 Handel Gloria, Handel in Rome Rudolph Palmer

The Queen’s Chamber Band

Lyrichord CD

Digital

2020 Purcell Excerpts from the fairy queen ; Odes and elegies for Queen Mary Frederick Renz

Ensemble for Early Music

Soprano

Soloist

Naxos CD

Digital

Audio

Cassette

Recitals

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Year Composer Title Collaborators Publisher Format Other Notes
1981 Spanish Music in the Age of Exploration Michael JaffeeWaverly Consort CBS

Masterworks

CD LP Audio Cassette

Fr. Version

1982 Reich Tehillim Zubin MehtaNew York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Special Editions, New York, ℗1999 10 CD Box Set

Digital

NY Phil: An American

Celebration

Vol. 2

1983 Telemann\Melani Baroque Music of love and war Badinage Musical Heritage Soc. LP
1988 16th &17th

English

Composers

The English Lute Song Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian CD

Digital

1988 Handel Handel in Italy John Ostendorf, Baritone Newport Classic Compact

Disc

“Mi Palpita il core”
1989 Telemann Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst James BowmanMusic’s Re-creation Newport Classic CD

Digital

Packe dich
1989 16th &17tEnglish Greensleeves Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian CD

Digital

In Darkness Let me Dwell
1990 Handel

Caccini

Songs of Love and War Colin Tilney, harpsichord Dorian CD

Digital

La Lucrezia

Amarilli 2971

1990 Caccini Dorian Sampler, Vol. 3 Various Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Amor ch’attendi
1990 Clérambault ClérambaultDramatic Cantatas Music’s Re-creation Meridian Records CD

Digital

Orphée

Héro e Leandre

1990 Misc Lullabies and Dances Bill Crofut Consort Albany CD

Digital

1990 Handel Italian Solo Cantatas and Instrumental Works Music’s Re-creation Meridian Records CD

Digital

Occhi miei che faceste

Quel fior che all’alba ride

1991 Dowland Awake Sweet Love: The Music of John Dowland David Tayler, lute

DeCormier Singers

Arabesque

Recordings

CD

Digital

His Golden Locks
1991 Handel

Vivaldi

Handel –The Italian Years Philomel Baroque Orchestra Wendy Gillespie, viola da gamba Dorian

Sono Luminus

Compact

Disc

Tra le Fiamme

All’ombra di Sospetto

1991 Montéclair

Clérambault

French Cantatas of the 18th Century American Baroque

Stephen Schultz

Koch CD

Digital

1992 Arne

Blow

Purcell

English Mad Songs and Ayres Colin Tilney, harpsichord Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Sleep, Gentle Cherub
1992 Misc. Lullabies: A Songbook Companion Richard Kapp, piano ESS.AY records CD

Digital

For Met Museum

Baloo

1992 Handel Dorian Sampler, Vol. 5 Colin Tilney, harpsichord Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Handel: Lucrezia

HWV 145

1992 Cavalli

Monteverdi

Musica Dolce: Works by Caccini, Monteverdi, Rossi, D’India and Others Colin Tilney, harpsichord Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Musica Dolce

Ohime

1993 Mozart Songs of Mozart Colin Tilney, fortepiano Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

An Chlöe
1994 Bach Arias for Soprano and Flute Emily Newbold, flute Newport

Classic

CD

Digital

1994 Hasse Cantatas, Ballads and Sonatas Nancy Hadden, flute CRD Records CD

Digital

Si, la gondola
1994 Handel Handel Favorites with America’s Finest Early Music Soprano Edward Brewer,

Harpsichord

Newport

Classic

CD

Digital

O sleep, why dost thou leave me
1994 Stephen Foster Parlour Songs, Duets Frederick Urrey

Linda Russell

Albany CD

Digital

Wilt thou be gone, Love
1995 Orbon

De Falla

Manuel de Falla and Julian Orbón Eduardo Mata, conductor

Solistas de Mexico

Rafael Puyana

Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Tres Cantigas del Rey
1996 Monteverdi

Caccini

Biabo

The Italian Lute Song Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Laudate

Dolcissimo

Fuggi, fuggi

1996 Austen

Bound Collections and Mss.

Austen: Jane’s Hand: The Jane Austen Songbooks Anthony Newman,

Mary Jane Newman, fortepiano

Vox CD

Digital

O Nanny
1996 Tin Pan Alley and early 20th c Turn of the Century Parlor Songs and Rags Rudolph Palmer, Piano Vox CD

Digital

Teasin’

Bohemian Rag

1996 Handel Handel –Greatest Arias Rudolph Palmer

Brewer Chamber Orchestra

Newport Classic CD

Digital

Angels ever Bright and Fair
1997 Schubert Winterreise: Original 1827 Version Andrew Willis, fortepiano Newport Classic CD

Digital

Der Lindenbaum
1997 Handel Where’re You Walk: Favourite English Arias Rudolph Palmer

Brewer Chamber Orchestra

Newport Classic CD

Digital

1997 Various Composers Angels of Antiquity Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Have you seen the Bright Lily
1998 Various

Composers

The Art of the American Singer Newport Classic Compact

Disc

1999 Handel Glorious Handel Rudolph Palmer

Brewer Chamber Orchestra

Newport Classic CD

Digital

Calm thou my Soul
1999 Fanny Mendelssohn Lieder Keith Weber, fortepiano Newport Classic Compact

Disc

Die Nonne
1999 Various 16th c Elizabeth’s Music Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian

Sono Luminus

Compact

Disc

Shall I come Sweet Love
1999 Gluck

Storace

The Songs of Jane Austen from her own music books Philip Anderson, tenor Vox CD

Digital

I have a Silent Sorrow
2000 Dowland Passionate Pavans & Galliards Marshall Coid, countertenor Lyrichord CD

Digital

2000 Misc. 16th-17th c. Shakespeare’s Music Ronn McFarlane, Lute Dorian

Sono Luminus

CD

Digital

Come Away, Hecate
2002 Rossini Rossini in Venice Andrew Willis, fortepiano

Frederick Urrey

Albany CD

Digital

2004 Haydn Celtic Caravans Linda Burman-Hall MSR Classics Compact

Disc

Will ye go to Flanders
2005 Purcell Oh the Sweet Delights of Love Karen Flint

Laura Heimes

Plectra Compact

Disc

2005 Arne Benjamin Franklin’s Musical World Philomel Baroque Spirituoso

Classics

Compact

Disc

2006 Misc. 15th 16th c Da Vinci –Music from his Time Michael Jaffee

Waverly Consort

Sony Compact

Disc

2006 Misc 16th-18th c Music in the Life of Benjamin Franklin David, Ginger

Hildebrand

Colonial Music Institute Compact

Disc

2007 Handel Flaming Rose: Nine German Arias Tempesta di Mare Chandos CD

Digital

Süsse Stille
2008 Handel

Scarlatti

Soprano Arias with trumpet and organ Darin Kelly, trumpet Albany CD

Digital

Eternal Source
2008 Handel Love in Arcadia: Duets and Trios Brandywine Baroque Plectra Compact

Disc

2009 Bartok

Kodaly

Roumanian Dances Bill Crofut Consort Albany

Naxos Music

CD

Digital

2009 Clérambault

De la Guerre

Clérambault and Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Cantates Françoises Brandywine Baroque Plectra Compact

Disc

2009 Misc. 16th 17th c Les Amours de Mai Parthenia MSR Classics CD

Digital

2010 Misc. A Dorian Portrait Naxos Music Library Digital
2012 Handel Handel’s Italian Muse Dryden Ensemble Dryden Ensemble CD

Digital

2013 Crofut Dance on a Moonbeam Meryl Streep

Bill Crofut

London Symphony

Telarc Records CD

Digital

2017 Telemann Six Moral Cantatas Steven Zohn, flute Centaur CD

Digital

2017 Monteverdi The Beauty of Monteverdi L’Orfeo Deutsche

Gramophon

CD

Digital

2018 de La Guerre Complete Sacred Cantatas Brandywine

Baroque

Plectra CD

Digital

2021 De Falla Manuel de Falla Collection Eduardo Mata Brilliant Classics CD

Digital

Psyché
2021 Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Songs for Lena Eva Mengelkoch, piano Naxos Music CD

Digital

Music for Christmas (Recordings)

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Year Composer Title Conductor/Orchestra Publisher Format Other Notes
1982 Medieval

Composers

The Christmas Story Michael Jaffee

Waverly Consort

CBS

Masterworks

Compact

Disc

LP, Audio Cassette
1993 Bach

Scarlatti

A Baroque Christmas Julianne Baird and

Aulos Ensemble

Musical Heritage Compact

Disc

Audio Cassette
1994 Handel Messiah Valentin Radu

Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble

Vox Compact

Disc

Convent Garden Version
1994 Trad. Carols

Bach

Scarlatti

A Baroque Christmas from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Julianne Baird and

Aulos Ensemble

MusicMasters Compact

Disc

1995 Misc.

Renaissance

Composers

A Renaissance Noël: Christmas Music for Chorus, Brass and Solo Soprano Valentin Radu

Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble

PolyGram

N.Y.

Compact

Disc

1995 Handel Messiah Highlights Valentin Radu

Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble

Vox Compact

Disc

1996 Handel Messiah Jeannette Sorrell

Apollo’s Fire

Onda

Cleveland, OH

Compact

Disc

1997 Misc.

Baroque

Composers

A Baroque Christmas Valentin Radu

Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble

Vox Compact

Disc

2006 Bruhns

Böddeker

In Dulci Jubilo Rudolph Palmer /Brewer Baroque Orchestra Centaur Compact

Disc

2010 Elizabethan

Christmas

As it Fell on a Holie Eve Parthenia Viol Consort MSR Classics Compact

Disc

References

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  1. ^ Cummings (2003), p. 38
  2. ^ a b c "Kent City Schools Hall of Fame Archives". Kent City Schools. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-12.

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