Dianne Mary Baird

Style: Opera; Folk; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Professor

Bio: Dianne Baird Biography Dianne was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she began studying music at the age of six. By sixteen, she had completed the Associate piano examination with Trinity College of Music in London, England and had sung on several radio and television programs. She has since sung in chorus and as a soprano soloist with the McGill Concert Choir, the Memorial University Concert and Chamber Choirs, Opera Lyra Ottawa, the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Seventeen Voyces, the Ottawa Choral Society, the Christian Chorale, the Savoy Society, the University of Ottawa Orchestra and Concert Choir, the Avalon Trio, the Bach Choir, the Kingston Chamber Choir, the National Arts Center Orchestra, the Sarteano Chamber Choral Workshop Ensemble and Cambridge Early Music. As a member of the Association of Television and Radio Artists, Dianne has also performed recitals together with on-air interviews for CBC radio. She has performed solo roles in both opera and oratorio, in Canada and abroad. Dianne has a keen interest in vocal technique especially the differences between classical and contemporary singing and is an experienced conductor. She has participated in workshops and conferences in Oberlin with Richard Miller, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City, Salt Lake City, State College, Pennsylvania, Charlotte, North Carolina and in Sarteano, Italy with Simon Carington. She also completed Choral Conducting Graduate Courses at the Eastman School of Music and at the Rod Eichenberger Choral Conducting Workshop in Cannon Beach, Oregon. She has attended the National Opera Association Conference in New York, the Teaching Professor Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, a workshop in the Jo Estill Method of Contemporary Singing in Winchester, Pennsylvania and received Certification from the Contemporary Commercial Music Institute at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Dianne has over fifty years combined teaching experience as a private voice teacher, a school music teacher, a choral and instrumental conductor and university voice professor at both Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She thoroughly enjoys teaching all styles of music and especially working with students at the advanced level. She was the Voice Area Coordinator at Queens from 2010 - 2023 and was the Opera Ensemble Director for four years from 2013 - 2017, and teaches Vocal Methods, Choral and Instrumental Conducting, Lyric Diction and Opera Performance.. She was the Artistic Director of the Brockville Community Choir from 2017 - 2023 and a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 2005 - 2025. She is a retired member of ORMTA, NOA and ACTRA and a member of NATS.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Folk; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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