Sunday, November 30, 2025
MUSIC FOR A FESTIVE SEASON
Soprano Dawn Bailey is a versatile artist, recognized for her engaging performances in a wide variety of vocal styles. Dawn is equally at ease as a soloist and as an ensemble member, moving fluidly from choral music to chamber music, opera, oratorio, and art song. Especially sought after for her imaginative interpretations of music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, she has appeared with some of Canada’s leading early music ensembles, including the Toronto Consort, Ensemble Caprice, The Toronto Masque Theatre, Aradia, Les Violons du Roy, the Theatre of Early Music, and le Studio de musique ancienne de Montreal.
Dawn is a member of FEMME vocal quartet, which recently collaborated with the Good Women Dance company for the production of a film about domestic violence, featuring original music written by Jane Berry. She has performed regularly over the past several years with Early Music Alberta, Calgary’s Early Music Voices, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, the Edmonton Symphony, Pro Coro Canada, and the Schola Cantorum at Saint Joseph’s Basilica.
Dawn holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music in Early Music Performance from McGill University. She has performed and recorded extensively with early music ensembles in Canada and Europe, including appearing as a soloist on Ensemble Caprice’s Juno-award winning album “Vivaldi and his Angels.” Dawn is also a Waldorf teacher, an avid gardener, and a mother of three wonderful children.