Featuring
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Michael Beattie
Keyboards, Organ, Harpsichord
Michael Beattie has received international attention as a conductor, keyboardist, and vocal coach specializing in the music of the Baroque period. Conducting engagements have included Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Glimmerglass Opera); Handel’s Rinaldo, Rodelinda, and Riccardo Primo (Pittsburgh Opera); and Handel’s Teseo (Chicago Opera Theater). For Boston’s Emmanuel Music, he has conducted Handel’s Ariodante, the St. John Passion, the complete Bach Motets, and more than one hundred Bach cantatas.
A highly regarded keyboard player, Mr. Beattie has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, BachFest Leipzig, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Les Violons du Roy, New World Symphony, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He toured in the US and Europe with director Peter Sellars: as Assistant Conductor for the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle and as organist for staged Bach cantatas with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
Beattie is currently Artistic Administrator and Principal Keyboardist of Emmanuel Music. He has recorded for KOCH International Classics and Nonesuch records.
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Andréa Walker
VBA Soprano
Hailed as ”luminous” and ”ethereal” (Washington Classical Review), Mexican-American soprano Andréa Walker can be heard performing across the country with groups like GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and The Thirteen. She recently made debuts with Pegasus Early Music, NYS Baroque, Seraphic Fire, Early Music Seattle, and the Boston Early Music Festival. Other solo performance highlights include her Lincoln Center debut in Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki and Juilliard415, Haydn’s Schöpfungsmesse with Yale Schola Cantorum (German tour), and at the Norfolk Chamber Choir Festival under the direction of Simon Carrington.
She and historical-keyboardist Mikhail Grazhdanov form Duo CPE- a new dynamic ensemble that has been featured at the Early Music Seattle Beyond Baroque Festival, 2024 Early Music American Summit, Boston Early Music Festival, and Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards Forte|Piano Festival.
Ms. Walker received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University where she took scholarly interest in keyboard/vocal music of the German salon C. 1800 and the performance of French Baroque gesture in sacred drama. Prior to her time in Cleveland, she graduated with a Master’s in vocal performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she specialized in early music, oratorio, and art song.
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Veronica Roan
VBA Alto
Veronica Roan is a mezzo-soprano from Dallas, Texas. She is a 2025 graduate of Yale School of Music, and is delighted to be singing at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Cultivating a versatility of style, Veronica sings a wide variety of concert and chamber music. Her most recent solo work includes J.S. Bach’s Köthener Trauermusik under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki, songs of Charles Ives in Generations of Music at Yale in Weill Hall, and Haydn’s Stabat Mater under the direction of Stefan Parkman. In the spring of 2024 she toured with Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum as the alto soloist in Bach’s Mass in B Minor, under the direction of David Hill, after she placed second in the Colorado Bach Ensemble’s national Bach Competition for Young Artists. Veronica’s solo work in 2023 included Handel’s L’allegro with Juilliard415 under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki, Déesse Flore and Hyacinth in La couronne de fleurs with The Sebastians (New York, NY), and Mozart’s Reqiuem with Music at Trinity (Vero Beach, FL). Her immersion in concert music at Yale has allowed her to collaborate with young composers, and she enjoyed premiering Brittney Benton’s Only in Dreams with New Music New Haven.
Veronica’s career has also encompassed choral ensemble performance and sacred music. She was a member of the 2022-2023 VOCES8 US Scholars program, with whom she recorded works by composers such as Reena Esmail, Shruthi Rajasekar, and Paul Smith with YourClassical at American Public Radio. She was also delighted to collaborate with VOCES8 in the US premiere concert of Christopher Tin’s Grammy-nominated work The Lost Birds. She performed regularly with chamber groups in Dallas including Orpheus Chamber Singers, Incarnatus, Dallas Chamber Choir, and others.
In addition to her performance work, Veronica was privileged to teach undergraduate and secondary voice to Yale University students. Veronica has also worked in non-profit development, most recently for The Dallas Opera, and in university admissions. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas.
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Michaël Hudetz
VBA Tenor
Michaël Hudetz, a Belgian-American tenor, specializes in early music performance as a soloist and is also active as a choral singer. A recent graduate of the Yale Voxtet (M.M.A. ’24), he performs internationally with renowned ensembles, including the four-time GRAMMY-winning The Crossing and Bach Collegium Japan. He recently gave a solo recital with members of The Crossing and has appeared as a soloist in Handel’s L’Allegro at Lincoln Center and Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Woolsey Hall. This past summer, he toured the U.K. with Yale Schola Cantorum and performed in Spain, Germany, and at the B.B.C. Proms in London with Bach Collegium Japan.
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Grant Jackson
VBA Bass
Hailed for his “revelatory” singing voice, baritone Grant Jackson is an active and dynamic performer of opera, art song, oratorio, and early music. Mr. Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and a master’s degree in vocal performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Highlights from the 2024-25 season include company debuts with Cincinnati Opera and the Sioux City Symphony. Highlights from previous seasons include appearances with Opera Maine, Emmanuel Music, Opera Idaho, the Glimmerglass Festival, the Colorado Bach Ensemble, Harmonia Stellarum Houston, Bach Society Houston, Collegium Cincinnati, and Queen City Opera, among others.
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