Our performances feature brilliant soloists!

Aaron Sheehan, tenor

Tenor Aaron Sheehan, is in high demand as a versatile performer of music ranging from solo to chamber repertoire. His voice has been praised by Opera News, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.

The Boston Cecilia welcomes him back; he has sung important roles in Handel performances by the group, notably in The Choice of Hercules, in 2005, and the Gala Handel Birthday concert, in 2007.

Sheehan has also appeared as soloist with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, New York Collegium, Pacific Chorale, the King’s Noyse, American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Baroque, Tempesta di Mare, Aston Magna Festival, Charlotte Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Newberry Consort, Dryden Ensemble, American Opera Theater, Intermezzo Chamber Opera, and the Lyra Concert Baroque Orchestra. His singing has taken him to many venues and festivals such as Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington National Cathedral, Tanglewood, the Early Music Festivals of Boston, Regensburg, San Francisco, Houston, Tucson, Washington DC, and Madison, as well as Monadnock Summer Music Festival.

He maintains an avid chamber music career as well, having worked with groups such as Theater of Voices, Fortune’s Wheel, La Donna Musicale, Dünya, Blue Heron Choir, and the Rose Ensemble. Mr. Sheehan has recorded and toured the U.S. and Europe with Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices, as well as Fortune’s Wheel, and appears on the 2007 and 2009 Grammy nominated recordings of Lully’s Theseé and Psyché, with the Boston Early Music Festival.

Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo-soprano

Hailed for her “deep, radiant, clear tone” (Early Music America) and “lustrous” singing (The Boston Globe), mezzo-soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore performs with some of the most celebrated ensembles in North America, including Aston Magna, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, The Boston Camerata, New York Collegium and Magnificat.  She also works with esteemed Boston-area groups such as the Newton Choral Society, Masterworks Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, Back Bay Chorale, Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Harvard University Choir, Pro Arte Orchestra, Ensemble Très. and Boston Cecilia.

Although a specialist in early music, she performs opera, oratorio, chamber music and contemporary music.  In addition to her appearance with Boston Cecilia this year, Ms. Rentz-Moore’s performances include Bach’s St. John Passion (1749 version) with the Harvard University Choir, two Messiah performances (at SUNY Fredonia and Franklin Pierce University), Durufle’s Requiem, “The Maria Monologues,” Vieni Imeneo and Borrowed Light with Boston Camerata, 17th century Italian music with Aston Magna, The Rose of Sharon with Ensemble Phoenix Munich at the 2010 Prague Spring Festival and Mother Goose in The Rake’s Progress with Emmanuel Music in 2011.

Her recordings include music of Cozzolani and Bach on the Musica Omnia label, Shaker songs on the Glissando label, Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Aston Magna (Centaur)  Baroque holiday music on the Très. label and Spanish baroque holiday music (Meridian).  In 2010, she recorded The Rose of Sharon (early American music) for Harmonia Mundi.