Aaron Sheehan

Aaron Sheehan
Born	Janesville
Instruments	voice

For the Irish hurler, see Aaron Sheehan (hurler).

Aaron Sheehan
Born	1975 (age 46–47) Janesville, Minnesota
Occupation	Opera singer
Years active	2005–present
Website	aaronsheehantenor.com

Aaron Sheehan (born 1975) is an American vocal tenor and professor of music who has been described as one of "the leading Early Music singers in the world".

Career

Following graduate school, Sheehan moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to launch his professional singing career. His opera debut came in 2005 when he appeared as Ivan in the Boston Early Music Festival's premiere of Johann Mattheson's Boris Goudenow. Sheehan went on to tour and perform extensively in Europe, South America, and the United States.

As of 2017, Sheehan is teaching at Boston University as lecturer in Music, Historical Performance, Voice. He also teaches voice at Wellesley College. The Boston Globe has lauded Sheehan as "superb: his tone classy, clear, and refined, encompassing fluid lyricism and ringing force". In a review of the Boston Early Music Festival's 2015 staging of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, The New York Times wrote that Sheehan "brought shining quality and deep sensitivity to the title role". During the Dallas Bach Society's performance of Messiah, the Dallas Morning News called Sheehan the "best of the soloists", describing him as having an "agreeably fibrous tenor deployed to great expressive effect".

Selected recordings

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers H.488, Aaron Scheehan, Orphée, Amanda Forsythe, Eurydice, Teresa Wakim, Jesse Blumberg, Boston Early Music Festival, Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, conducted by Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs (CPO 2014) Grammy Award For Best Opera Recording 2015

Personal life

Sheehan has three siblings.