# Julianne Baird

Julianne Baird (born December 10, 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.

## Biography

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

| 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 Palmer, Baroque 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 Hogwood, Academy 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 Aeneas; The Indian Queen | Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music | Second Woman | Decca: L’Oiseau-Lyre | CD, Digital | |
| 1995 | Handel | Ezio | Richard Auldon Clark, Manhattan 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 Clark, Manhattan 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 Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | Dido | Lyrichord | CD | Title Role |

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

| Year | Title | Conductor/Orchestra | Publisher | Format | Other Notes |
| 1982 | B minor Mass BWV 232 | Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble | Nonesuch | CD, Digital (OVPP) | LP and Audio Cassette |
| 1982 | Magnificat BWV 243 | Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble | Pro Arte Records | CD, Digital (OVPP) | Audio Cassette |
| 1986 | St. John Passion BWV 245 | Anthony Newman, Brandenburg 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 | CD, Digital (OVPP) | 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 (OVPP) | |
| 1990 | St. John Passion BWV 245 | Kenneth Slowik, Smithsonian Chamber Players and Smithsonian Chamber Chorus | Smithsonian Recordings | CD, Digital | |
| 1992 | Trauerode, BWV 8, BWV 156, BWV 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 | Digital (OVPP) | Online, Digital Library |
| 2011 | 101 Bach | Joshua Rifkin: The Bach Ensemble | Decca | Digital (OVPP) | 6 CD set |

### Oratorios

| 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 | Handel | Dixit Dominus | James Litton, American Boy Choir | | Musical Heritage | CD, Digital | Premiere Recording |
| 1996 | Handel | Acis and Galatea | Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | Galatea | Vox | CD, Digital | |
| 1997 | Vivaldi | Magnificat, Gloria | Valentin Radu: Ama 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

| Year | Composer | Title | Collaborators | Publisher | Format | Other Notes |
| 1981 | | Spanish Music in the Age of Exploration | Michael Jaffee, Waverly Consort | CBS Masterworks | CD | LP, Audio Cassette (Fr. Version) |
| 1982 | Reich | Tehillim | Zubin Mehta, New 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 | CD | "Mi Palpita il core" |
| 1989 | Telemann | Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst | James Bowman, Music’s Re-creation | Newport Classic | CD, Digital | Packe dich |
| 1989 | 16th & 17th English Composers | 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 | Clérambault Dramatic 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 | CD | 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 | CD | |
| 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 | CD | Die Nonne |
| 1999 | Various 16th c | Elizabeth’s Music | Ronn McFarlane, Lute | Dorian, Sono Luminus | CD | 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 | CD | Will ye go to Flanders |
| 2005 | Purcell | Oh the Sweet Delights of Love | Karen Flint, Laura Heimes | Plectra | CD | |
| 2005 | Arne | Benjamin Franklin’s Musical World | Philomel Baroque | Spirituoso Classics | CD | |
| 2006 | Misc. 15th 16th c | Da Vinci – Music from his Time | Michael Jaffee, Waverly Consort | Sony | CD | |
| 2006 | Misc 16th-18th c | Music in the Life of Benjamin Franklin | David & Ginger Hildebrand | Colonial Music Institute | CD | |
| 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 | CD | |
| 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 | CD | |
| 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 Grammophon | 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)

| Year | Composer | Title | Conductor/Orchestra | Publisher | Format | Other Notes |
| 1982 | Medieval Composers | The Christmas Story | Michael Jaffee, Waverly Consort | CBS Masterworks | CD | LP, Audio Cassette |
| 1993 | Bach, Scarlatti | A Baroque Christmas | Julianne Baird and Aulos Ensemble | Musical Heritage | CD | Audio Cassette |
| 1994 | Handel | Messiah | Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | Vox | CD | Convent Garden Version |
| 1994 | Trad. Carols, Bach, Scarlatti | A Baroque Christmas from The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Julianne Baird and Aulos Ensemble | MusicMasters | CD | |
| 1995 | Misc. Renaissance Composers | A Renaissance Noël: Christmas Music for Chorus, Brass and Solo Soprano | Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | PolyGram N.Y. | CD | |
| 1995 | Handel | Messiah Highlights | Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | Vox | CD | |
| 1996 | Handel | Messiah | Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo’s Fire | Onda, Cleveland, OH | CD | |
| 1997 | Misc. Baroque Composers | A Baroque Christmas | Valentin Radu: Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble | Vox | CD | |
| 2006 | Bruhns, Böddeker | In Dulci Jubilo | Rudolph Palmer, Brewer Baroque Orchestra | Centaur | CD | |
| 2010 | Elizabethan Christmas | As it Fell on a Holie Eve | Parthenia Viol Consort | MSR Classics | CD | |