Diane Baird

Voice

Dianne was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she began studying music at the age of six. By sixteen, she had completed the Associate piano examination with Trinity College of Music in London, England and had sung on several radio and television programs. She has since sung in chorus and as a soloist with the McGill Concert Choir, the Memorial University Concert and Chamber Choirs, Opera Lyra Ottawa, the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Seventeen Voyces, the Ottawa Choral Society, the Christian Chorale, the Savoy Society, the University of Ottawa Orchestra and Concert Choir, the Avalon Trio, the Bach Choir, the Kingston Chamber Choir, the National Arts Center Orchestra and Cambridge Early Music.

As a member of the Association of Television and Radio Artists,

Dianne has also performed recitals together with on-air interviews for CBC radio. She performed solo roles in both opera and oratorio, some of which include, "Dido" in Dido and Aeneas, "Mademoiselle Warblewell" in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, the "Abbess" in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, "Euridice" in Gluck's Orpheus and Euridice, "Hilda" in Henze's Elegie für Junge Liebende and soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi's Gloria and Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions.

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