Russian American soprano, Erika Baikoff, is a Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program graduate and has performed Xenia (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov) and Barbarina (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro) on the Met’s mainstage.

Recent orchestral highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor with Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Atlanta Symphony and Nathalie Stutzmann; the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s tour of Wagner’s Das Rheingold; Mahler’s Symphony No 4 with the Ulster Orchestra, Taipei Music Academy & Festival, and Orchestre National de Lyon; Britten’s Les Illuminations with Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Nunes Garcia’s Missa di Requiem with BBC Symphony Orchestra; Galuppi’s La Caduta di Adamo with Helsinki Baroque; and concert performances of Jano (Janáček’s Jenůfa) with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.

An acclaimed recitalist, Erika has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Ciclo de Lied series in Madrid, Schubertiade Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, Heidelberg Spring Music Festival (Heidelberger Frühling), Palau de la Música Catalana, Alice Tully Hall New York, Sag Harbor Festival (USA), and Klassinen Hietsu Helsinki. Forthcoming recitals include a return to the Wigmore Hall, and her debut appearances at Oxford International Song, Santa Fe, and Leeds Lieder Festivals.

Erika has received numerous international prizes and awards including at the Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb, the 10th Concours international de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger, the Concurs Tenor Viñas, and the George and Nora London Foundation Competition, and received the 2019 Career Bridges Grant, 2018 Mondavi Young Artist Founders’ Prize, and the 2013 Bouchaine Young Artist Scholarship.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Princeton University and a Master of Music from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.