Grammy Award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan is recognized internationally as a leading interpreter of baroque repertoire. Equally compelling on the opera stage and concert platform, he is praised for his “sinuous and supple” voice (Opera News) and expressive musicality.

Sheehan’s 2025-26 season includes performances of Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, as well as with the Jacksonville Symphony and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Further performances includes appearances with Philharmonia Baroque for Rameau’s La guirlande, the Bach Collegium of San Diego for the B Minor Mass, Musica Angelica for the St. Matthew Passion, and Boston Early Music Festival for Stellidaura’s Revenge in the role of Orismondo.

In the 2024–25 season, Sheehan debuted with Music of the Baroque in Haydn’s Creation under Dame Jane Glover, joined San Francisco Symphony and Jacksonville Symphony for Messiah, and returned to Washington Bach Consort as Evangelist in St. Matthew Passion, and appeared in Kaiser’s Octavia with Boston Early Music Festival. He also returns to Philharmonia Baroque for Handel’s Alceste. 

Sheehan made his professional operatic debut with the Boston Early Music Festival in the 2005 world premiere staging of Mattheson’s Boris Gudenow, winning praise from Opera News for his “sinous and supple” voice, and went on to further roles with BEMF in Lully’s Psyché, Charpentier’s Actéon, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea, Steffani’s Orlando, Desmarest’s Circé, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea.

He appears on over 35 recordings, including Handel’s Acis & Galatea with Boston Early Music Festival, Rameau’s Le temple de la Gloire & Handel’s Saul with Philharmonia Baroque, and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Boston Baroque. He sang the title role in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, which won Best Opera Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

His worldwide operatic and concert appearances include venues as diverse as the Royal Opera at Versailles, Tanglewood Festival, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Beethoven Festival Warsaw, Boston Symphony Hall, Musikfestspiele Postdam Sanssouci, Halle Handel Festival, Leipzig BachFest, and the early music festivals of Boston, San Francisco, and Vancouver.

Recent performances include Handel’s Messiah with Seattle Symphony, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Armenian Philharmonic, Winterreise in recital at the Smithsonian Museum, Bach’s B minor Mass with American Bach Soloists, solo performances with Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque, and the first Bach St. Matthew Passion in Peru with the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. 

Sheehan received his bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Luther College and a master’s degree in historical vocal performance from Indiana University, and currently serves on the voice faculty of Boston University.