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Janna Baty
Soprano	As Featured on Naxos, March 2004
New England Third Place Winner, 1993

Hailed by the Boston Globe for her "sheer glamour of timbre" and her "flamboyant style and fine musicality", soprano Janna Baty has already received recognition in the international vocal world, and her career continues to gather momentum.

In June of 2003, Ms. Baty performed with Boston's Opera Unlimited festival to great acclaim, singing the role of the Duchess in Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face. She first sang the Duchess only weeks before in March, in a last-minute debut with the Hamburgische Staatsoper, having learned the role on only one week's notice. In another recent eleventh hour debut, she sang Bernstein's Symphony N°3 (the "Kaddish") in 2002 with Michel Plasson and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (France), a work she also sang in its 1998 UK premiere with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Other recent highlights include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Brooklyn Philharmonic, Lukas Foss' Griffelkin with Boston Modern Orchestral Project (BMOP) at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, and her debut with Boston Lyric Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Upcoming engagements include Despina in Cosí fan tutte with Boston Lyric Opera; Boulez's Le Marteau Sans Maître with Collage New Music, and a concert of Strauss' orchestral songs of with Tallahassee Symphony. She has two recordings being released this year: Lukas Foss' Griffelkin (Chandos) and Persian Landscapes (Naxos), featuring music by Iranian composer Reza Vali.

Ms. Baty has sung with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), the Brighton, Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, the "Semanas Musicales de Frutillar" festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals. She has sung under Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Carl Davis, Cal Stewart Kellogg, Stephen Lord, Jonathan Darlington, Christopher Lyndon Gee, David Angus, Francisco Rettig, Stefan Asbury, David Hoose and George Benjamin, among others.

Other opera roles include Alice Ford (Falstaff), Anna and Elvira (Don Giovanni), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Vittelia (La clemenza di Tito), Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites), Lady Billows (Albert Herring), Musetta (La bohème), La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), the Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Rheims), Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw), among numerous others.

Winner of several international competitions, most notably the XXI Concurso Internacional de Ejecución Musical "Dr. Luis Sigall" (Chile), Ms. 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. An avid performer of new music, she also collaborates frequently with composers and has worked with Bernard Rands, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Fred Lerdahl, Reza Vali and John Harbison on performances of their music.

Ms. Baty is represented by William Reinert Associates, Inc.

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