Wendy Baker, soprano, has a Master in Music Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and she obtained a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance (cum laude) from Clayton State College.  She has been heard as a soloist in works including Handel’s Messiah, Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël, Poulenc Gloria, Vivaldi Gloria, Faure Requiem, Brahms Requiem, Haydn’s Stabat Mater andTheresienmesse, Mozart Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music.  She has sung the roles of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Giuletta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Gilda (Rigoletto), Madame Heartthrob (The Impresario), Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), and the title roles in Suor Angelica and Lucia di Lammermoor.

 

The recipient of numerous awards, Wendy was a Jensen Foundation National Finalist, Oratorio Society of New York Semi-Finalist, Gerda Lissner National Finalist and Grant Winner, and a Prize Winner in the Met District and Regional competitions.

Wendy has had the privilege of traveling to Israel and the Salzburg Music Festival where she sang as the soprano soloist in the Bloch Sacred Service under the baton of Zubin Mehta.

She is a member of the Saint Ignatius Loyola Choir in Manhattan, NY, where she recently sang as the soprano soloist in the Poulenc Gloria under the direction of K. Scott Warren, and was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent soprano soloist."