Recent Guest Artists Include
Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
Praised by the Boston Globe for “a rich, viola-like tone and a rapturous,
luminous lyricism”, mezzo-soprano Janna Baty has recently appeared with
the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon
Philharmonic (Korea), Hamburgische Staatsoper, L’Orchestre National du
Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony,
Tuscaloosa Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera, Opera
North, and Boston Lyric Opera. In addition to her many collaborations with
BMOP and Gil Rose, she has sung under the batons of James Levine, Seiji
Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Stuart Bedford, Stephen
Lord, Stefan Asbury, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Dean Williamson, David Hoose,
Shinik Hahm, and Edward Cumming, among others. As a recitalist and chamber
musician, she has performed at the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in
England, The Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar
Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood, Norfolk, and Monadnock Music
festivals in the U.S. Ms. Baty has been privileged to work in collaboration
with many important living composers, including John Harbison, Bernard
Rands, Yehudi Wyner, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, and Fred
Lerdahl.
Ms. Baty’s discography includes the critically lauded Vali: Flute Concert/Deylaman/Folk Songs (sung in Persian), Eric Sawyer’s new opera Our American Cousin (starring as pioneering theatre impresario Laura
Keene), Lukas Foss’s opera Grifflekin (as the Mother); and Harbison’s Mirabai Songs (on
the disc John Harbison: Full Moon in March), all with Gil Rose and Boston
Modern Orchestra Project. She recently joined the faculty of the Yale
School of Music.