AARON ENGEBRETH (baritone),
acclaimed for his "exemplary diction and rich baritone
voice," maintains an active solo career in opera, oratorio
and recital, and has devoted considerable energy and time
to the performance of new music, often collaborating with
composers. Mr. Engebreth has recently been featured with groups
and venues such as the American Bach Soloists, Tanglewood
Music Festival, Boston Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Miami
Bach Society, the Boston Early Music Festival, Musicians of
the Old Post Road, the Providence Singers, Boston Modern Orchestra
Project, Opera Aperta, the Melrose Symphony, the Back Bay
Chorale, the Orchestra of St. Peter's and the Boston
Academy of Music. He has received significant recognition
for his interpretation of early music, most recently as a
national finalist and place-winner in the 2002 American Bach
Society/Bethlehem Bach Competition. As a 2000 fellow with
the Pacific Music festival in Sapporo, Japan, Mr. Engebreth
was featured in their performances of Handel's
Alexander's
Feast and Bach's
Magnificat. He regularly
appears with Emmanuel Music on their famed Bach Cantata series.
Other notable solo engagements include Haydn's
Creation
under the baton of the late Robert Shaw and recently, the
role of Lidio in Cavalli's
L'Egisto under
the musical direction of Martin Pearlman. Mr. Engebreth has
performed extensively as a recitalist on the concert series
of the Longy School of Music, Marsh Chapel at Boston University,
the Boston Public Library, King's Chapel, the Old South
Church of Boston where he took part in an acclaimed performance
of the rarely heard
AIDS Quilt Songbook, and recently
with WCRB's Concerts at Copley Square, at which he appeared
with Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops performing
works of Richard Rogers with Mr. Lockhart at the piano. A
committed interpreter of contemporary music, Mr. Engebreth
collaborates frequently with composers, most recently working
in preparation with Ned Rorem on the Boston premiere of his
evening-length song cycle
Evidence of Things Not Seen
with the Florestan Recital Project. The critically acclaimed
performance, noting Mr. Engebreth's "beauty of
voice and eloquence,"(Boston Globe) was repeated in
June 2003 in Providence, Rhode Island as part of the Red House
Festival. On the operatic stage, Mr. Engebreth has performed
a variety of roles ranging from Count Almaviva in
Le nozze
di Figaro to Schaunard in
La Boheme. His performance
of Sid in the Red House Opera Group's 2002 performances
of Britten's
Albert Herring was described by
the Boston Globe as, "nearly perfect in voice, characterization
and appearance," and Opera News hailed his recent performance
as Masetto in Opera Aperta's
Don Giovanni as
"consistently strong." Mr. Engebreth's other
2002-03 engagements include performances with the Tanglewood
Music Festival, Opera Aperta, Red House Opera Group, Boston
Cecilia, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Miami Bach Society, Opera Unlimited
(Boston Academy of Music/Boston Modern Orchestra Project),
the Providence Singers, the Rhode Island Civic Orchestra and
Chorus, Back Bay Chorale and the American Bach Soloists. He
also appeared as a vocal fellow at the Ravinia Music Festival's
Steans Institute for Singers in August 2003. In September
of 2003, Mr. Engebreth made his debut with the Handel and
Haydn Society as a soloist in their production of Monteverdi's
Vespers of 1610 and will also perform Ned Rorem's
Santa Fe Songs with the composer at the piano with the Terezin
Chamber Music Society that will culminate in the world-premiere
recording of the work. Mr. Engebreth is on the music faculties
of Tufts University and the Community Music Center of Boston
and is a founding member and co-artistic director of the Florestan
Recital Project. He is an alumnus of Viterbo College and received
a Master's Degree from Boston University. He can be
heard on the upcoming releases of Conrad Susa's
Carols
and Lullabies on Arsis Records and on Lukas Foss'
Griffelkin with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
on the Chandos label.
