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Janna Baty
Tuesday, December 11, 2018Upcoming opera and concert performances in January and February, 2019Visit my calendar page for full details!

In recital with Ben Verdery, guitar
Tuesday, January 15 at 7:30 pm
Morse Recital Hall at Sprague Memorial Hall


Renowned guitarist/composer David Leisner, with guitarists Benjamin Verdery and João Luiz and vocalists Courtenay Budd, Devony Smith, and Janna Baty, in a celebration of Mr. Leisner’s 65th birthday, featuring three of his song cycles. Friday, January 18 at 7:30 pm at Symphony Space, NYC.


So excited to be singing Mrs. Lovett in my first Sweeney Todd! Shows are January 25 at 7:30 pm and January 27 at 2 pm at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA. *PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be available through the Academy of Music website by January 1, 2019. Watch this site… a link will be posted! Please do not call until the link is posted as the box office will not be able to help you!*

In recital with Frank Morelli, bassoon and Wei-Yi Yang, piano. Wednesday, January 30 at 7:30 pm IN Morse Recital Hall at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale School of Music in New Haven.

Janna Baty, mezzo soprano
Faculty Recital
Janna Baty, mezzo soprano with Wei-Yi Yang, piano
with guest Frank Morelli, bassoon
Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30 pm




April 27, 2018A moment to brag on my wonderful students (including my favorite one)!This is the time of year when things get exciting as students find out where they're headed, both in the short and long term!

My student Madeline Lemberg has accepted a prestigious job at Yale for next year (details cannot yet be divulged!). Isobel Anthony will be spending a semester abroad in Italy next fall. Jared Michaud has landed a spot in the summer vocal program run by Yale in Vienna, Austria and secured all the funding to do so. Sara Speller has secured funding for research in North and South Carolina in support of her thesis. Former students Emily Misch and Terrence Chin-Loy were both semi-finalists in the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition, with Emily going onto the finals! And very exciting... Courtney Sanders has been accepted to Mannes College of Music for her Master's degree!

But I am far and away proudest of my SON, Charlie, for being named Student of the Quarter at school... this was a long time coming and I couldn't be prouder of my beauty and his hard work!

April 19, 2018Wrapping up a busy season!One thing I love about having a life and career that revolves around the academic calendar is the structure it gives to the year. Time really flies by. But on the other hand... time really flies by. And before you know it, you're on the verge of saying "goodbye" to beloved graduating students and (gulp) gearing up for next year. I've been lucky to have many exciting engagements this season, and plenty of cool projects here at Yale. I feel very fortunate! But I'm also looking forward to a little downtime--and in particular to time to spend with my kiddo!--and to a summer in the city. For the first time since college I'll be heading to Italy: in July I'm joining a group of friends old and new to do some hiking and sightseeing in the Dolomites. For fun! Imagine! Feels strange to me to be traveling NOT to work but just to have fun. I have a feeling it'll be something I could get used to...


Praised by the Boston Globe for “a rich, viola-like tone and a rapturous, luminous lyricism,” mezzo-soprano Janna Baty enjoys an exceptionally versatile career as a mezzo soprano and as an educator. She has sung with Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, Hamburgische Staatsoper, L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, South Florida 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, Stephen Lord, Stefan Asbury, Gil Rose, David Hoose, and Shinik Hahm, among numerous others. As a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist, she has performed at festivals worldwide, including the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, the Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood, Norfolk, Monadnock, and Coastal Carolina festivals in the United States. A noted specialist in contemporary music, Ms. Baty has worked alongside many celebrated composers, including John Harbison, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, Paul Salerni, and Paul Moravec, on performances of their music.

Ms. Baty is very proud to have enjoyed a long collaboration with conductor Gil Rose and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and with them has recorded the critically lauded Vali: Folk Songs (sung in Persian); Lukas Foss’ opera Griffelkin; the world-premiere recording of Eric Sawyer’s Civil War-era opera Our American Cousin; and John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs. A BMOP recording, "Reza Vali: Towards That Endless Plain", on which Ms. Baty is prominently featured, was one of NPR Classical's 10 Favorite Albums of 2013.

An alumna of Oberlin College and the Yale School of Music, she began her career as a teacher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2008.


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