For over thirty years, the baritone Aaron Engebreth has built a varied solo career in classical music, theatre, musical theatre and radio. He currently stars in the multi-episode serialized opera made for television, Everything for Dawn, as Mac Logan, a Vietnam Veteran who appears as a spectral presence, even when he’s alive. Critically acclaimed as being “sung with wrenching melancholy by Aaron Engebreth”, the series currently streams on multiple online and television networks.
He began performing professionally at the age of 16, (nearly failing out of High School as a result) but a life in performance had seized his attention. He is now a perennial guest of major orchestras, opera companies and early music ensembles throughout the United States and abroad and devotes considerable energy to the performance of established music and contemporary premieres, frequently collaborating with many of today’s preeminent composers.
His New York City Opera debut in Dominick Argento’s mono-dramatic opera, A Waterbird Talk, was acclaimed by the New York Classical Review stating, “Engebreth is a marvelous actor, capable of holding his character’s many facets and motivations in tension.” Mr. Engebreth has garnered two GRAMMY Award nominations for Best Operatic Recording for his work with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen (Thésée and Psyché, by Lully). He has been a soloist from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center and Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as international appearances from Sapporo Japan’s Kitara Hall to Le Theatre de la Ville in Paris to the AmBul Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. Mr. Engebreth has been a guest soloist of the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rockport and Monadnock Music Festivals, the Mark Morris Dance Company and Boston Ballet. He has been featured with early music orchestras such as American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. He was a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music for six seasons, joining a longtime tradition of performances of Bach’s cantatas under the direction of the late Craig Smith.
Mr Engebreth is featured with many of the country’s fine symphonies, among them the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Portland, Virginia, San Diego, Charlotte Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Like many artists, he has been honored to make music in some of the world’s greatest concert halls and stages, but also intimate social programs in nursing homes, community centers and public schools. He is a frequent guest-clinician, leading masterclasses and mentoring activities in Universities and Conservatories.
His 2024/25 season brings performances with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Washington DC’s 21st Century Consort, Boston’s Coro Allegro, Lexington Symphony, Boston Baroque and Tundi Productions, as well as commercial operatic and lieder recordings with Enigma Chamber Opera and Florestan Recital Project. He will present the New York premiere of Jon Deak’s monodrama, The Passion of Scrooge – a piece he has frequently performed and recorded with Firebird Chamber Ensemble – with the New York-based Talea Ensemble in December.
A prolific recording artist, he is featured on over 35 commercial recordings and is often heard as a voice-over artist. He is a member of the Recording Academy and of the Actors’ Equity Association.