Praised by the Boston Globe for “a rich, viola-like tone and a rapturous,luminous lyricism”, recent highlights of mezzo-soprano Janna Baty’s calendar include appearances with Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic (Korea), Hamburgische Staatsoper, L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera, Opera North, and Boston Lyric Opera. She has sung under the batons of James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Gil Rose, Stephen Lord, Stefan Asbury, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Dean Williamson, David Hoose, Shinik Hahm, and Edward Cumming. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, The Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals in the U.S. Ms. Baty has been privileged to work in collaboration with many important living composers, including John Harbison, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, and Fred Lerdahl, as well as those composers whose works she sings in this festival. Ms. Baty’s discography includes the critically lauded “Vali: Flute concert/Deylaman/Folk Songs “(sung in Persian), Eric Sawyer’s new opera “Our American Cousin” (starring as pioneering theatre impresario Laura Keene);” “Lukas Foss’ opera “Grifflekin” (as the Mother); and Harbison’s “Mirabai Songs “(on the disc “John Harbison: Full Moon in March”), all with Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Formerly on faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she recently joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music. She lives in New York City with her husband, acclaimed jazz guitarist and vocalist Doug Wamble, and their four year old son, Charlie.