Aaron Sheehan

Aaron Sheehan regularly performs in the United States, South America, and Europe. He enjoys a reputation as a first-rate interpreter of the works of Bach, Handel and Mozart, and sang the title role in Boston Early Music Festival’s Grammy Award-winning recording of Charpentier’s opera La déscente d’Orphée aux enfers.

He has performed concerts at Tanglewood, the Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington National Cathedral, the Early Music Festivals of Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver, Washington DC, Carmel, Regensburg and the Halle Handel Festival, and with American Bach Soloists, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Music Works, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Tafelmusik.

His roles with Boston Early Music Festival include L’Amour and Apollon in Lully’s Psyché, Actéon in Charpentier’s Actéon, Demetrius in Graupner’s Antiochus und Stratonica, roles in Versailles, Portrait of a Royal Domain, the title roles in Orfeo and Orlando Generoso, Orfeo in Campra’s Le carnaval de Venise, Eurimaco Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Acis Acis and Galatea, and Liberto/Soldato L’incoronazione di Poppea.

Recent engagements have included Christ lag in Todesbanden & Dixit Dominus and Messiah for a New World with Bach Collegium San Diego, a recording of ‘Netherlandish Music’ with the Handel & Haydn Society, to accompany an exhibition of Netherlandish Art in Boston, Messiah with Boston Baroque and Victoria Symphony, a recital with Nigel North in Indianapolis and Lully’s L’Idylle sur la paix and Charpentier’s La Fete du Ruel with Boston Early Music Festival.

Forthcoming engagements include performances and a recording of Ulysse in Desmaret’s Circé and Moore in Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley with Boston Early Music Festival, and Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center.