Performance Year: 2026, 2027
With a voice described as “velvet-toned” (BBC Music Magazine), praised for his “appealing, midweight baritone” (The New York Times) and “forthright agility and bold declamation” (Musical America), baritone Edward Vogel is recognized as a sensitive, versatile performer.
The 2026-2027 sees his solo debuts with the Omaha, Alabama, York (PA), and the Kalamazoo Symphonies in addition to returns to the Tucson Symphony, Washington Bach Consort, and GRAMMY-winning Apollo’s Fire. Highlights of recent seasons include solo appearances with Apollo’s Fire, the Tucson Symphony, and Boise Philharmonic as well as his solo debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Handel’s Israel in Egypt, for which Musical America praised him as “one of the evening’s highlights.” Other solo appearances include Handel’s Messiah and Monteverdi’s Vespers with Apollo’s Fire, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, and Haydn’s The Creation with GRAMMY-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra. In 2024, he received a GRAMMY nomination for his work as a soloist on Apollo’s Fire’s recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt, and in the fall of 2026, he looks forward to his second album release as soloist with Apollo’s Fire in Bach’s Mass in B minor.
Highly in-demand as an ensemble singer, Mr. Vogel has performed with groups including Bach Collegium Japan, Clarion Society, and Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices in the world premiere of David Lang’s the writings at Carnegie Hall. He is also a core member of some of the United States’ finest professional choral ensembles. An avid recitalist, Edward’s specialties include British art song of the twentieth century, music from medieval and renaissance Iberia, and works by Gustav Mahler. Having honed his craft with champions of art song, including Dawn Upshaw, Roger Vignoles, and the late Sanford Sylvan, his intimate interpretations have been heard onstage at celebrated venues including the Tanglewood Festival and Wigmore Hall.
Mr. Vogel holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and the University of Notre Dame.
