|  Julianne
Baird, soprano, will give a master class and a Guest Artist Concert
at Millsaps College on Friday, Sept. 29, in the Ford Academic
Complex Recital Hall. Rachel Heard will accompany her on fortepiano.
The concert is entitled “The Musical World of Benjamin Franklin” and
begins at 7:30 p.m.
Recognized internationally as one of the few who
can both demonstrate the full range of the singer's art and explain
it, Baird is regularly asked to provide master classes at universities
and music schools throughout North America. A professor of music
at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Baird holds degrees from the
Eastman School and a diploma from the Salzburg Mozarteum in performance.
She also earned a Ph.D. in music history from Stanford University.
Baird’s international repertoire includes appearances at the International Lufthansa Festival in London with solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall with the Mozart Requiem, at Bach’s own Thomaskirche in Leipzig with Bach’s Magnificat, and at the International Wroclaw Festival of Song in Warsaw.
With more than 100 recordings to her credit on Decca,
Deutsche Gramophone, Newport Classics and Dorian, Julianne Baird
is considered
one of America’s most recorded women. The New York
Times called Baird’s work “artistry of a high order,” and
The Philadelphia Inquirer said, “One of the simplest ways
to avoid missing any vocal riches is to follow Julianne Baird around.”
Millsaps College, founded in 1890, is an independent, national liberal arts institution affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Consistently ranked in U.S. News and World Report’s top tier of national liberal arts colleges, Millsaps is located in Jackson, Miss., a metropolitan capital city of 425,000. Millsaps College is also the only Mississippi institution featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges, and is cited as one of Loren Pope’s 40 Colleges That Change Lives.
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