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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 | December 10, 1952 Statesville, North Carolina[1] |
| Genres | Opera, Baroque |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, voice professor |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
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.
| 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 |
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| 1990 | Telemann | Pimpinone | Rudolph PalmerBaroque Orchestra of St. Luke | Vespetta | Newport Classic | CD
Digital |
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| 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: | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Koch Intl | CD
Digital |
Volume 2 |
| 1992 | Solo Cantatas BWV 51, BWV 54, BWV 55 BWV 82 | Jeffrey Thomas | Koch Intl | CD
Digital |
|
| 1995 | “Cantatas from Mühlhausen and Weimar”BWV 12, BWV 18, BWV 61 | Jeffrey Thomas | 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 | |
| 1998 | Actus Tragicus | Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble | Decca | CD | Select Cantatas |
| 1998 | Sacred Cantatas | Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble | Naxos | DigitalOVPP | Online
Digital Library |
| 2011 | 101 Bach | Joshua RifkinThe Bach Ensemble | Decca | Digital | 6 CD set |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Year | Composer | Title | Collaborators | Publisher | Format | Other Notes |
| 1981 | Spanish Music in the Age of Exploration | Michael JaffeeWaverly Consort | CBS | 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 | Songs of Love and War | Colin Tilney, harpsichord | Dorian | CD
Digital |
La Lucrezia
Amarilli 2971 |
| 1990 | Caccini | Dorian Sampler, Vol. 3 | Various | Dorian | 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 | Arabesque | CD
Digital |
His Golden Locks |
| 1991 | Handel | Handel –The Italian Years | Philomel Baroque Orchestra Wendy Gillespie, viola da gamba | Dorian | Compact
Disc |
Tra le Fiamme
All’ombra di Sospetto |
| 1991 | Montéclair | French Cantatas of the 18th Century | American Baroque
Stephen Schultz |
Koch | CD
Digital |
|
| 1992 | Arne | English Mad Songs and Ayres | Colin Tilney, harpsichord | Dorian | 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 | CD
Digital |
Handel: Lucrezia
HWV 145 |
| 1992 | Cavalli | Musica Dolce: Works by Caccini, Monteverdi, Rossi, D’India and Others | Colin Tilney, harpsichord | Dorian | CD
Digital |
Musica Dolce
Ohime |
| 1993 | Mozart | Songs of Mozart | Colin Tilney, fortepiano | Dorian | CD
Digital |
An Chlöe |
| 1994 | Bach | Arias for Soprano and Flute | Emily Newbold, flute | Newport | 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 | 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 | Manuel de Falla and Julian Orbón | Eduardo Mata, conductor
Solistas de Mexico |
Dorian | CD
Digital |
Tres Cantigas del Rey |
| 1996 | Monteverdi
Biabo |
The Italian Lute Song | Ronn McFarlane, Lute | Dorian | 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 | CD
Digital |
Have you seen the Bright Lily |
| 1998 | Various
Composers |
The Art of the American Singer | Newport Classic | Compact
Disc |
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| 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 | Compact
Disc |
Shall I come Sweet Love |
| 1999 | Gluck | 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 | 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 | 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 | Roumanian Dances | Bill Crofut Consort | Albany | CD
Digital |
|
| 2009 | Clérambault | 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 | Telarc Records | CD
Digital |
|
| 2017 | Telemann | Six Moral Cantatas | Steven Zohn, flute | Centaur | CD
Digital |
|
| 2017 | Monteverdi | The Beauty of Monteverdi | L’Orfeo | Deutsche | 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 |
| Year | Composer | Title | Conductor/Orchestra | Publisher | Format | Other Notes |
| 1982 | Medieval
Composers |
The Christmas Story | Michael Jaffee | CBS | Compact
Disc |
LP, Audio Cassette |
| 1993 | Bach | 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 | 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 | Onda
Cleveland, OH |
Compact
Disc |
|
| 1997 | Misc.
Baroque Composers |
A Baroque Christmas | Valentin Radu
Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble |
Vox | Compact
Disc |
|
| 2006 | Bruhns | 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 |
