Janna Baty

JANNA BATY, soprano, has garnered accolades internationally in her exceptionally versatile career. Recent engagements include appearances with the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), Eugene Opera, Opera North, and Boston Lyric Opera. Equally at home in standard repertoire and new music, she appears regularly with such noted contemporary ensembles as Collage New Music, Auros Group for New Music, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has sung under Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, and Christopher Lyndon Gee, among others. She has appeared with the Aldeburgh and Britten festivals in England, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals in the United States. Winner of several international competitions, most notably the XXI International Music Competition “Dr. Luis Sigall” (Chile), Professor Baty is also an accomplished recitalist and chamber musician. She has given concerts across Europe, the U.S., and South America, in the company of such distinguished musicians as violist Nobuko Imai, pianists Claude Frank and Peter Frankl, and guitarist Stephen Marchionda. She has worked alongside many composers, including Bernard Rands, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Fred Lerdahl, Yehudi Wyner, and John Harbison, in performances of their music. She can also be heard on Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Naxos disc of works by Reza Vali. An alumna of Oberlin College and the Yale School of Music, she is married to acclaimed jazz guitarist and singer Doug Wamble.