Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett is active in the Boston area as a singer and conductor. While studying and working in the Netherlands he was a member of the Huelgas Ensemble, the Netherlands Bach Society and the Hemony Ensemble. In Boston Mr. Barrett directs Sprezzatura, a professional vocal ensemble, and Convivium Musicum, a Renaissance chamber choir; he co-directs l'Academie, a professional chamber choir and orchestra for Baroque music. At Harvard he directs the Holden Chamber Ensembles and the Dudley Chorus. As a singer Mr. Barrett has collaborated with Blue Heron, Seven Times Salt, and Boston Secession, and has appeared in the two most recent opera productions of the Boston Early Music Festival. He also maintains a studio for private instruction in voice and music theory. Mr. Barrett earned an AB in music from Harvard University, an MM in choir conducting from Indiana University in Bloomington, and a first phase diploma in Baroque and Classical singing from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
