Doug Balliett

Doug Balliett is a composer, instrumentalist and poet based in New York City. The Los Angeles Times recently wrote “Bassist Doug Balliett, who teaches a course on the Beatles at The Juilliard School and writes cantatas for Sunday church services, as well as wacky pop operas, is in a class of his own.” Balliett has been professor of baroque bass and violone at The Juilliard School since 2017, and leads the Theotokos ensemble every Sunday at St. Mary’s church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he also composes new music every week. Theotokos has given immersive performances of sacred music in New York, France, and Germany. Balliett plays regularly with the American Modern Opera Company, Les Arts Florissants, Jupiter Ensemble, ACRONYM, Ruckus, Boston Early Music Festival, Alarm Will Sound, and other ensembles.He has led Les Arts Florissants in his own work on several occasions, including Ovid Cantatas, filmed for Qwest TV with The Juilliard School, and a new St. Mark Passion performed and filmed in August 2025. Upcoming and recent performances include his newest opera, Rome is Falling!I, with AMOC in Lincoln Center, his Ovid Cantatas at Alte Musik Zürich, new songs for Reggie Mobley’s recent album Solitude, his St. Mark Passion in New York City, and Beast Fights with the Boston Symphony bass section at Tanglewood.