Virginia-born bass-baritone Daryl Yoder was raised in southern Africa and received his musical training at the Oberlin Conservatory and Boston University. He has performed in concert and opera across the eastern U.S. as well as in Europe and Botswana, appearing with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Apollo’s Fire, Opera Lancaster, Columbus Bach Ensemble, Opera Henriette, Three Notch’d Road, Handel Choir of Baltimore, Bel Cantanti Opera, the Maryland Choral Society and many others.
Especially noted for his work in Baroque music, recent seasons have included leading roles in John Blow’s Venus & Adonis, Cavalli’s L’Erismena, and the modern premier of Georg Reutter’s Dafne as well as multiple appearances in Bach’s Passions and B Minor Mass. He has premiered works by Jasmine Barnes, Tawnie Olson, Joshua Bornfield, Douglas Buchanan and many others, creating the role of Frank Spearman in Frances Pollock’s opera Stinney which was performed at the PROTOTYPE Festival for new opera in New York. During a residency in the Czech Republic he had the opportunity to give modern premieres of music by 18th-century Bohemian composers Šimon Brixi, Cajetanus Vogel and Leonardo Leo with the Consortium musicum Plzeň and the Kolegium pro duchovní hudbu.
Daryl has a special affection for the recital stage where his performances have included the complete song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, the American premiere of Imogen Holst’s Four Elizabethan Songs, and more than 250 other works by composers from Beethoven to Robert Owens to Vítězslava Kaprálová. As an in-demand ensemble singer, he has sung with the professional choirs of the Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music (Boston), Apollo’s Fire, Chantry, and The District 8. He is resident bass and part of the artistic team of Third Practice, a vocal consort specializing in both baroque and newly composed music.