The baritone Aaron Engebreth maintains an active career in opera, oratorio and recital, and has devoted considerable energy and time to the performance of new music, often collaborating with composers. He has been featured in performances from Japan’s Kitara Hall, to Boston’s Symphony Hall, to Paris’s Le Theatre de la Ville. In 2008, he debuted at the Kennedy Center as soloist in Faure’s Requiem and Carlyle Sharp's Proud Music of the Storm. Mr. Engebreth has received significant recognition for his interpretation of early music, performing with many of the country’s finest early music organizations, including the American Bach Soloists, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, Miami Bach Society, Boston Baroque and Santa Fe Pro Musica. Mr. Engebreth was a core member of Emmanuel Music from 2002-2008, joining a thirty-five year tradition of weekly performances of Bach’s sacred cantatas under the direction of the late Craig Smith. He considers this experience the highlight of his musical life thus far.

Sought-after as a recording artist, Mr. Engebreth is featured on two Grammy Nominated recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen: the 2007 release of Lully's Thésée (also nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award), and the 2008 release of Lully's Psyché. He is featured in recordings of John Deak's The Passion of Scrooge with the Firebird Ensemble, Lukas Foss’s oratorio The Prairie with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Providence Singers, and he created the role of Jack Matthews in the premiere recording of Eric Sawyer’s opera Our American Cousin, again with BMOP. In addition, Mr. Engebreth can be heard as the Policeman in Lukas Foss’s opera Griffelkin on Chandos records, and as soloist in Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies on the Arsis Label. He began a multi-disc project this year recording the Complete Songs of Daniel Pinkham with the Florestan Recital Project on Florestan Records. While on the music faculty of Tufts University, he was twice awarded faculty development grants to study music of the French baroque in Paris. Mr. Engebreth has also served on the music faculty of the Boston Conservatory and the SoundScape Festival of Pavia, Italy and is an Artistic Co-Director of the Florestan Recital Project. He lives with his wife Katherine and their three children in Portland, Maine.