Praised for his versatility, the “especially brilliant” (Arts Fuse) “luminous bass-baritone” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), baroque musician, scholar, and hazzan IAN POMERANTZ is “the possessor of a remarkable instrument naturally at home in many genres.” Ian is a passionate storyteller, serving diverse communities in the present through the music of the past. A specialist in the Baroque bass repertoire and an expert in the performance of secular, religious, and art music from the Jewish Diaspora, Ian has been a soloist with The Washington Bach Consort, The Boston Early Music Festival Opera, Byron Schenkman & Friends, Blue Hill Bach, The Handel and Haydn Society, Cantata Singers, Masterworks Chorale, The City Choir of Washington, The Cambridge Chorus, and many more. A respected scholar of Sephardic Jewish music, He can be heard on the ACIS label in Washington Bach Consort’s Myths Contested and his solo debut album with Byron Schenkman Art Songs of the Jewish Diaspora, which the Journal of Singing called “one of the most important musical statements of our day” and for which he was nominated for the 2025 American Prize in Art Song and Oratorio. His 2024-2025 season includes the modern premier of Giuseppe Lidarti’s 1774 oratorio Esther at the Royal Concergebouw, Amsterdam, performances of Jewish Baroque music with the Washington Bach Consort, and the 350th Celebration of the Portuguese Synagogue. As a scholar, Ian has a wide range of publications on Sephardic musical tradition. He is the recipient of the Broome&Allen Fellowship from the American Sephardic Federation and is completing his PhD in Musicology and Jewish Studies at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris in tandem with cantorial studies at the École Rabbinique du Paris. Ian holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and Longy School of Music of Bard College. He lives in Amsterdam and Washington, DC.