She is fast emerging as one of the most compelling lyric voices of her generation. An alumna of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program, Opéra National de Lyon Studio, and Verbier Festival, she is a first prize winner of the Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the Concours international de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. From the 2025/26 season, she is a BBC New Generation Artist. A passionate recitalist, Baikoff appears at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Heidelberg Festival, Schubertíada Villabertran, the Wiener Konzerthaus, or Lincoln Center. A member of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble, we find among her roles Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel). On the concert stage, she performs Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem.

Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Thomas Allen, Janet Baker, Florian Boesch, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Simon Keenlyside, Felicity Lott and Bryn Terfel. He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe, North America and Australia. He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder+ Festival.