Bradford Gleim

Meet Bradford

Bradford Gleim uses the human voice to create authentic connection. As an artist and mentor, he delves deeply into repertoire spanning six centuries, embracing a flexible vocal technique and sometimes unfamiliar approaches in the pursuit of emotionally attuned performances.

Praised by the Boston Globe for his “voluminous baritone” and “brilliant delivery,” he performs throughout the United States and Europe. He has appeared with the Handel and Haydn Society, Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Boston Baroque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Emmanuel Music, the Borromeo String Quartet, Laus Polyphoniae in Antwerp, FloReMus in Florence, and Boston’s conductorless orchestra A Far Cry. He was a featured soloist with Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare on the Grammy Award-winning album The Sacred Spirit of Russia.

As singer and Artistic Advisor, Gleim has helped Cut Circle find a new sound for Renaissance music, heard on Johannes Ockeghem: Les Chansons (2020), Messes Anonymes (2021), and JOSQUIN: I. Motets & Chansons (2023), the first in a series devoted to the complete works of Josquin des Prez.

A proponent of new music, Gleim collaborates with living composers to bring life to their works, having most recently sung Rick Sowash’s Harvest of a Quiet Eye with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and premiered Ralf Gawlick’s Grüße Bruno — Briefe aus Stalingrad (Best Regards Bruno — Letters from Stalingrad).

Gleim mentors others to discover their embodied voice. Moving fluidly among heterogeneous vocal techniques and pedagogical traditions, he helps musicians access not only a variety of vocal colors, but also their potential for healing, personal growth, and body awareness. He guides singers in Harvard University’s Holden Voice Program, Brown University’s Applied Music Program, and as Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music. He also leads workshops and masterclasses and offers unique intuitive instruction for vocalists in his private studio.