Aaron Sheehan

Aaron Sheehan is a Grammy Award-winning tenor recognized internationally as a leading interpreter of Baroque repertoire, who is equally at home on the concert platform and the opera stage from medieval monody to twentieth-century masterworks.  The performances of Haydn's Creation on September 15 and 17 mark his debut with Music of the Baroque.

Aaron Sheehan made his professional operatic debut with the Boston Early Music Festival in the 2005 world premiere staging of Mattheson’s Boris Gudenow, winning praise from Opera News for his “sinuous and supple” voice, and went on to further roles with BEMF in Lully’s Psyché; Charpentier’s Actéon; Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Steffani’s Orlando; Desmarest’s Circé; and Handel’s Acis and Galatea.

Aaron Sheehan appears on over 35 recordings, including Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Boston Early Music Festival; Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire and Handel’s Saul with Philharmonia Baroque; and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Boston Baroque. He sang the title role in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, which won Best Opera Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards. 

Aaron Sheehan's worldwide operatic and concert appearances include venues as diverse as the Royal Opera at Versailles, Tanglewood Festival, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Beethoven Festival Warsaw, Boston Symphony Hall, Musikfestspiele Postdam’s Sanssouci, Handel Halle Festival, and the early music festivals of Boston, San Francisco, and Vancouver.

Recent performances include Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Armenian Philharmonic; Winterreise in recital at the Smithsonian Museum; Bach’s Mass in B Minor with American Bach Soloists; solo performances with Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque; and the first Bach St. Matthew Passion in Peru with the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. He has also been heard in featured performances and recordings with Pacific Music Works, Blue Heron Choir, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices. 

Raised in Minnesota, Aaron Sheehan received his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Luther College and a master’s degree in historical vocal performance from Indiana University. He currently is on the voice faculty of Boston University.