Julianne Baird, soprano
Prior performances with Tempesta di Mare:
- Flaming Rose: Handel’s Nine German Arias (2006)
concerts & CD recording - Recital: Julianne Baird sings Shakespeare (2014)
- Handel’s Messiah (2014)
- Zimmermann’s Coffee House (2015)
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Julianne Baird is a vocal phenomenon. . . a rare and wondrous voice guided by an extraordinary musical intelligence.
Fanfare
Julianne Baird has been hailed a “national artistic treasure” (New York Times) and as a “well-nigh peerless performer in the repertory of the baroque.” She possesses a natural musicianship which engenders singing of supreme expressive beauty.” The London Times has called her Handel performances “exquisitely stylish.”
We here at Tempesta di Mare couldn’t agree more, and are delighted to bring her back in a program that features the music she does like no other: Elizabethan and Restoration Era songs by Byrd, Dowland, Lanier and good old “Anonymous”.
She has over 100 recordings to her name and has been Professor at Large and an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth since 2011 and is a distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. Dr. Julianne Baird is recognized internationally as one whose “virtuosic vocal style is firmly rooted in scholarship.” Her book Introduction to the Art of Singing, Cambridge University Press, now in its third printing, is used by singers and professional schools internationally.
Google her for interviews, soundclips and many wonderful and entertaining interviews, including these from 1985 in the New York Times and 2005 in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the latter of which hints at her first performances and recording with Tempesta in Flaming Rose: Handel’s Nine German Arias.
That recording was also this author’s first stint with Tempesta: I served as the German diction coach to Julianne on the recording and started working as Tempesta’s Managing Director a week later!
I can’t wait to welcome Julianne back!
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Ulrike Shapiro is Tempesta di Mare’s Managing Director. She is also the German Diction Coach in the Vocal Department at the Curtis Institute of Music.