ACIS AND GALATEA

Bass-baritone Michael Galvin has been praised as a “distinguished and disarming” performer (Rochester City Newspaper). His 2025/26 season includes appearances with Apollo’s Fire in Dido & Aeneas and Praetorius Christmas Vespers, Atlanta Baroque in Acis & Galatea, and a return to the Boston Early Music Festival for Don Quichotte (Telemann). Recent highlights include Aida and Die Tote Stadt with Boston Lyric Opera and St. John Passion performances with Indianapolis Baroque and BU Marsh Chapel.

A seasoned ensemble musician, Michael maintains active collaborations with the Handel and Haydn Society and The Thirteen, and appears on the Boston Early Music Festival’s recording of Circé (CPO Records).

Beyond traditional concert stages, Michael performs as drag artist Donatella Fermata (@donatella_fermata). As Donatella, he made his operatic debut as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, uniting classical performance with drag artistry to reimagine opera for modern audiences. His work, recognized with a 2024 Live Arts Boston Grant, champions LGBTQ+ visibility and accessibility in the arts.

Hailed as a “standout” whose “heartfelt invocation of peace in ‘Rejoice greatly’ had listeners dabbing at tears” by the New York Times, GRAMMY®-nominated soprano Margaret Carpenter Haigh captivates audiences with her “flawless intonation” and “perfect vocalism” (Classical Voice North Carolina) in “superbly sung” (Early Music America Magazine) performances. Treasured performances include the North American premiere of Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains & Seas; David Del Tredici’s virtuosic An Alice Symphony with Portland Symphony and Ballet; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the choirs of Trinity Wall Street and Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres in the Easter at King’s Concert Series in King’s College Chapel (Cambridge); and a highly publicized and ground-breaking soprano interpretation of the Evangelista role in Bach’s St. John Passion at the 2024 Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the work’s creation. Recent solo recording credits include Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Apollo’s Fire and Desmarest’s Circé with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Margaret is a grateful recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and holds the M.Mus from the University of Cambridge and the D.M.A. in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where her dissertation was supervised by Susan McClary. She has lectured widely, including at University of Iowa, Harvard University, Peabody Institute, and Indiana University, and has served on the faculties of the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain and Vocal Fellows Program at Bach Akademie Charlotte. Margaret is a member of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. More at www.margaretcarpenterhaigh.com

Michaël Hudetz is a sought-after Bach and Handel soloist whose “light, plangent tenor” (Bachtrack) is recognized for clarity, flexibility, and expressive text delivery. He specializes in early music and the sacred vocal repertoire, performing regularly across the United States and Europe.

He joined Bach Collegium Japan for their 2024 European tour, including an appearance at the BBC Proms, and has appeared as a soloist under Masaaki Suzuki at Lincoln Center. Michaël was named a 2025 Virginia Best Adams Vocal Fellow with the Carmel Bach Festival. Recent international highlights include solo engagements with the European Hanseatic Ensemble, the Weckmann Consort, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

His recording credits include Hyperion Records’ release of Amy Beach’s Canticle of the Sun with Yale Schola Cantorum, featuring him as tenor soloist. In the U.S., he is a core member of The Crossing, a four-time Grammy Award–winning ensemble. 

Michaël holds a Master of Musical Arts from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and a Master of Music from Northwestern University. 

Hailed as “luminous” (Washington Classical Review) and “a force to be reckoned with” (Seen and Heard International), Mexican-American soprano Andréa Walker is dedicated to heartfelt and dramatic historically informed performance. She sings across the country with ensembles including GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra Apollo’s Fire, Pegasus Early Music, NYS Baroque, Harmonia Stellarum Houston, and Ars Lyrica. She is thrilled to be performing with Atlanta Baroque Orchestra in the 2025-2026 season after being featured as a soloist in the Monteverdi Vespers and as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. As a recitalist, she has performed alongside keyboardist Mikhail Grazhdanov (Duo CPE) at the Early Music Seattle Beyond Baroque festival, Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, Boston Early Music Festival, and Early Music America Summit. Other recent solo engagements include her Lincoln Center debut in Telemann's Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki/Juilliard415 and the 2025 Carmel Bach Festival where she was a Virginia Best Adams vocal fellow. Andréa received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in historical performance practice from Case Western Reserve University and holds degrees in vocal performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and University of Houston.