Sharon Baker
Soprano
New England Third Place Winner 1981

Voted Boston's "Musician of the Year, 1998," by the Boston Globe, soprano Sharon Baker is internationally recognized for her stylistic musicianship and purity of tone, most notable in the interpretation of Baroque and contemporary music. Current season highlights include the U.S. premiere of Mozart's newly discovered Der Stein der Weisen with Boston Baroque, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in collaboration with Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet, and performances of Handel's Triumph of Time and Truth on tour in Germany and Italy with Aston Magna.

Ms. Baker will be singing in Poppea with Boston Baroque in October, 2000 in the role of Drusilla, and also as the princess in the Beneficent Dirvish (Spring, 2001), the sequel to the Philosopher's Stone, a Mozart collaborative opera which was discovered a few years back and premiered and recorded by Boston Baroque on Telarc. The Dirvish will be recorded on Telarc as well. Ms. Baker has a part on a newly released recording of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride (Telarc). She has been performing Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the New York City Ballet for the past 4 years, most recently in Saratoga Springs, the Ballet's summer home. This will continue in February of 2001. Ms. Baker will be performing her12th annual Boston Messiah with Boston Baroque in December, as well as New Year's Eve and Day concerts.

Recent solo engagements include Monteverdi's Vespers with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa, Handel's L'Allegro with the Handel & Haydn Society, Webern Songs, Op. 6, with Boston Musica Viva, Bach's St. John Passion with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra and Bach's B Minor Mass as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.

Ms. Baker is a favorite soloist with many of Boston's outstanding period orchestras including the Handel & Haydn Society, Christopher Hogwood, Director, the Boston Cecilia Society, as part of its annual Handel Oratorio Series, and Boston Baroque, and is featured on a new Telarc recording of Moravian Music with the latter. Opera roles include Handel's Cleopatra, Teseo, and Dorinda, Mozart's Zerlina, Pamina, Pappagena and Zilberklang, and Monteverdi's Poppea, among others The versatile soprano has also performed in the premieres of two American operas: Philip Glass' the Fall of the House of Usher and Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry. She has appeared at the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, has recorded music of Haydn and Handel on the Arabesque label, Mozart's sacred music on the Harmonia Mundi USA label, and is featured on a 1999 Telarc release of Mozart's Der Stein Der Weisen.

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