SOPRANO

Erika Baikoff

"The wonderful Erika Baikoff brought relief to the Mahler landscape in the last movement sublimely introduced by the harp and the clarinet. With a pure and very expressive voice, both in the music and in the text, the Russian-American soprano envelops in a fragile but transparent case the paradise described in this wonderful music."

American Soprano, Erika Baikoff, is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. As a Lindemann Young Artist, she sang the roles of Xenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. She is the first-prize winner of the 2019 Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the 10th Concours international de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger with her duo partner, Gary Beecher, as well as the recipient of the George London Foundation Award and Mondavi Young Artist Founders’ Prize. This season, she was named a BBC New Generation Artist.

Recent orchestral highlights include Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra's tour of Das Rheingold with Nézet-Seguin, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Ulster Orchestra / Daniele Rustioni and with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Nathalie Stutzmann. This season, she debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and La Cetra Barockensemble. On the recital stage, she looks forward to her debuts at the Brucknerhaus Linz and Wiener Konzerthaus and returning to Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.