Baritone Bradford Gleim enjoys a diverse singing career devoted to opera, oratorio, song and choral music. Hailed as "someone to watch" by the Boston Music Intelligencer, his repertoire spans the past four centuries and he excels in styles as disparate as Puccini and DuFay.  Mr. Gleim has appeared in concert throughout North America and Europe and resides in Boston, MA.

In the 2009-10 season Bradford Gleim performed as a soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society under the direction of Harry Christophers in an all-Bach program in Boston's Symphony Hall, sang the role of John Proctor in The Crucible with Boston Opera Collaborative, joined the all-male chorus of Tancredi with Opera Boston and was heard in recital in a concert of Hugo Wolf's Eichendorff Leider in the inaugural season of the [plain] song. Mr. Gleim also worked with the period vocal ensemble Exsultemus in performances of rarely heard Baroque and Renaissance repertoire and sang the role of Pilate and the bass solos in Bach's St. John Passion with the Concord Chorus. He will return to the Connecticut Early Music Festival to sing the bass solos in Bach's Cantata 194 in June and join the Santa Fe Desert Chorale in their summer concert season.

In past seasons Mr. Gleim was heard in scenes from Don Giovanni and Il barbiere di Siviglia with the New York Summer Opera Scenes, Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War with The Bermuda Festival, Telemann’s St. John’s Passion with Exsultemus, an all Ockeghem concert with Cut Circle and Masses of Haydn and Fux with the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

In April 2008, Bradford Gleim made his Jordan Hall debut as a guest artist with the Borromeo String Quartet where he sang Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach. He did so as a recipient of the quartet's Guest Artist Award.
 
In recital, Bradford Gleim endeavors to create new approaches to the presentation of song. In 2007, he created a multi-media format for the performance of Francis Poulenc’s Le travail du peintre which featured projections of the famous paintings that inspired both the music and the poetry of the cycle along with new translations of the text.

As an avid proponent of new music, Mr. Gleim has premiered many new compositions, numerous of which have been written by New England composers. In 2005-7, Bradford Gleim premiered Chris Eastburn’s Consent to Gravity, a multi-media performance that incorporates string quartet, vocal soloists and dance with the Island Moving Company in Providence, Los Angeles, New York and Boston.

A dedicated teacher, Mr. Gleim has a private studio in his home in Jamaica Plain, MA and works as a Choral Artist for the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

Bradford Gleim recieved an MM in Vocal Performance from the Longy School of Music where he trained with Robert Honeysucker and was a participant in the New England Conservatory Opera Studio where he worked with James McDonald. He now studies with Jane Olian in New York City.

When he's not performing classical music or teaching, Brad spends time tending his garden or playing the Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes.

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