Aaron Sheehan

 

Aaron Sheehan is a member of the new generation of American early music vocalists. A graduate of Indiana University's Early Music Institute, he has been engaged as a performer in projects ranging from the medieval up through twentieth-century opera. His voice has been described by Opera News as "sinuous and supple," and the Boston Globe says he "sings with musical charm and vocal aplomb."

Mr. Sheehan has recorded and toured in the US and Europe with Paul Hillier's Theater of Voices, as well as appearing with other ensembles such as Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, Fortune's Wheel, La Donna Musicale, and Liber unUsualis. In 2001, he was named a finalist in the Chimay International Baroque Singing Competition under the auspices of William Christie. He has also frequently been engaged as a soloist with groups such as the Handel and Haydn Society, the Aston Magna Festival, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Cecilia, the Intermezzo Opera Company, and the Lyra Concert Baroque Orchestra. Recent engagements include the role of Ivan in the Boston Early Music Festival's world premiere staging of Mattheson's Boris Gudenow, Orfeo in Monteverdi's Orfeo with Harvard University's Society for Early Music, and a national tour of the Monteverdi Vespers with Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino.

Mr. Sheehan teaches voice at Wellesley College, Brown University, and the New England Conservatory's Extension School.