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BIOGRAPHIES
Grammy Award-winning baritone Bradford Gleim performs opera, oratorio, and chamber music to
critical acclaim throughout the United States and Europe. “Gleim'’s rich, expressive voice” has been
described as “consistently impressive, his restraint only reinforced by his vocal charisma” and his
flexible burnished baritone praised as “reliable and resonant.” He has appeared with such groups
as Emmanuel Music, The Borromeo String Quartet, Opera Boston, The Mark Morris Dance Group,
and The New Haven Symphony.
Bradford Gleim is heard this season in Carmina Burana with the Andover Choral Society,
Monteverdi Vespers with Boston Baroque, Bach'’s Christmas Oratorio with the Handel and Haydn
Society, Bach’s B Minor Mass with Musica Sacra, Bach's Magnificat with Oratorio Chorale, Brahms
Requiem with the Kent Singers and Bach'’s St. John Passion with Emmanuel Music. In 2013-1 4, Mr.
Gleim was featured in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Portsmouth Pro Musica, Haydn'’s Creation with the
Texas Choral Consort, Brahms’ Requiem with the Oratorio Chorale, and Bach's B Minor Mass with
Boston Cecilia. In past seasons he has appeared with Boston's premiere period orchestras: the
Handel and Haydn Society under Harry Christophers and Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman as
well as with Boston Cecilia under the late Donald Teeters.
On the opera stage Bradford Gleim has portrayed Germont in La Traviata, John Proctor in The
Crucible, Frederique Bhaer in Little Women and Silvio in Pagliacci. In recital, he has created a
multi-media performance of Francis Poulenc’s Le travail du peintre at the Longy School of Music
which featured projections of the famous paintings that inspired both the music and the poetry
of the cycle. He was also honored to offer a recital of German and American Song which featured
Brahms’ Four Serious Songs at Boston College’s Gasson Hall. Additionally, he has performed
extensively on the concert platform including a concert of Samuel Barber's Dover Beach with the
Borromeo String Quartet which he gave as a recipient of the quartet’s Guest Artist Award in New
England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
An active recording artist, Mr. Gleim has recorded on the Coro, Harmonia Mundi, and Musique
en Wallonie labels as well as with Linn Records, and is frequently involved in recording projects
at WBGH Studios in Boston. Bradford Gleim is a passionate teacher. In the past he has taught at
numerous institutions and programs, including the Metropolitan Opera Guild in their Urban Voices
program in the Boston Public Schools. Currently, Mr. Gleim is proud to serve as Assistant Professor
of Voice at Berklee College of Music.
Grammy Award-winning baritone Bradford Gleim performs opera, oratorio, and chamber music to
critical acclaim throughout the United States and Europe. “Gleim'’s rich, expressive voice” has been
described as “consistently impressive, his restraint only reinforced by his vocal charisma” and his
flexible burnished baritone praised as “reliable and resonant.” He has appeared with such groups
as Emmanuel Music, The Borromeo String Quartet, Opera Boston, The Mark Morris Dance Group,
and The New Haven Symphony.
Bradford Gleim is heard this season in Carmina Burana with the Andover Choral Society,
Monteverdi Vespers with Boston Baroque, Bach'’s Christmas Oratorio with the Handel and Haydn
Society, Bach’s B Minor Mass with Musica Sacra, Bach's Magnificat with Oratorio Chorale, Brahms
Requiem with the Kent Singers and Bach'’s St. John Passion with Emmanuel Music. In 2013-1 4, Mr.
Gleim was featured in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Portsmouth Pro Musica, Haydn'’s Creation with the
Texas Choral Consort, Brahms’ Requiem with the Oratorio Chorale, and Bach's B Minor Mass with
Boston Cecilia. In past seasons he has appeared with Boston's premiere period orchestras: the
Handel and Haydn Society under Harry Christophers and Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman as
well as with Boston Cecilia under the late Donald Teeters.
On the opera stage Bradford Gleim has portrayed Germont in La Traviata, John Proctor in The
Crucible, Frederique Bhaer in Little Women and Silvio in Pagliacci. In recital, he has created a
multi-media performance of Francis Poulenc’s Le travail du peintre at the Longy School of Music
which featured projections of the famous paintings that inspired both the music and the poetry
of the cycle. He was also honored to offer a recital of German and American Song which featured
Brahms’ Four Serious Songs at Boston College’s Gasson Hall. Additionally, he has performed
extensively on the concert platform including a concert of Samuel Barber's Dover Beach with the
Borromeo String Quartet which he gave as a recipient of the quartet’s Guest Artist Award in New
England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
An active recording artist, Mr. Gleim has recorded on the Coro, Harmonia Mundi, and Musique
en Wallonie labels as well as with Linn Records, and is frequently involved in recording projects
at WBGH Studios in Boston. Bradford Gleim is a passionate teacher. In the past he has taught at
numerous institutions and programs, including the Metropolitan Opera Guild in their Urban Voices
program in the Boston Public Schools. Currently, Mr. Gleim is proud to serve as Assistant Professor
of Voice at Berklee College of Music.
