Praised by the Boston Globe for “a rich, viola-like tone and a rapturous, luminous lyricism,” mezzo-soprano Janna Baty enjoys an exceptionally versatile career. She has sung with Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, Hamburgische Staatsoper,L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Longwood Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera and Boston Lyric Opera.
She has sung under the batons of James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Stephen Lord, among numerous others. As a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist, she has performed at festivals worldwide, from the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England and the Varna Festival in Bulgaria to theSemanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile and the Tanglewood Festival in the US. A noted specialist in contemporary music, Ms. Baty has worked alongside many celebrated composers, including John Harbison, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner and Sydney Hodkinson, on performances of their music.
She has enjoyed a long collaboration with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and with them has recorded the critically lauded Vali: Folk Songs (sung in Persian); Lukas Foss’ opera Griffelkin; the world-premiere recording of Eric Sawyer’s Civil War-era opera Our American Cousin; and John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs. She joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2008.
Norfolk Presents: Thomson, Argento and Copland
Jul 31
Friday at 8:00 pm
Norfolk Festival Music Shed
THOMSON: 3 Estampas de Niñes (Three Sketches from Childhood)
THOMSON: Stabat Mater for Soprano and String Quartet
ARGENTO: Three Songs from To Be Sung Upon the Water
THOMSON: Mostly About Love
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring