Michael Barrett, Music Director

Michael Barrett is active in the Boston area as a singer, conductor and teacher.  Prior to making Boston his home in 2004, Mr. Barrett spent four years studying and working in The Netherlands.  While in Europe he was a member of the Huelgas Ensemble, the Netherlands Bach Society and the Hemony Ensemble.

In Boston Mr. Barrett is Music Director of L’Académie (www.lacademiemusic.org), a professional Baroque ensemble; Sprezzatura, a professional vocal ensemble for Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire; and Convivium Musicum (www.convivium.org), a Renaissance chamber choir.

As a singer Mr. Barrett has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Blue Heron, Seven Times Salt, and Boston Secession. Mr. Barrett has performed in the two most recent opera productions of the Boston Early Music Festival (www.bemf.org).

Mr. Barrett maintains a studio for private instruction in voice, piano and music theory.  He has also worked as a workshop leader in professional development courses and for Oakridge Music Schools in Vancouver, Canada.  Mr. Barrett is involved in music curriculum development for IMC, also based in Vancouver.

Mr. Barrett earned an AB in music from Harvard University (www.harvard.edu), an MM in choir conducting from Indiana University (www.music.indiana.edu) in Bloomington, and a first phase diploma in Baroque and Classical singing from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (www.koncon.nl).