Jessica Bowers

Voice

She/Her

Jessica Bowers has performed with Utah Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Boston, Central City Opera, and Ohio Light Opera. Roles include Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, and The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann, and The Queen in John Harbison’s A Full Moon in March. She has performed with Cygnus Ensemble, Taconic Music, Poetica Musica, L’Artiste Ordinaire, Dali Quartet, Composers Concordance, and Satori Ensemble. Recently, she premiered Akemi Naito’s one-woman opera, Emily Brontë, in New York City and Tokyo, and Earl Kim’s opera, Footfalls, at Lehigh University. This season she will perform with The Village Trip, Composers Concordance, Poetica Musica, and The Bowers Fader Duo.

She has maintained a private voice studio in Manhattan since 2014 and teaches voice and piano at Westchester Home Music, RiverArts, and Brooklyn Music School.

She and her duo partner, Oren Fader, guitarist, have released two albums - Between Us All, on the Naxos label, through New Focus Recordings, and People, Places, & Pets, on Bridge Records, which is an album entirely made up of music written for them by Paul Salerni. This fall, they will present their ninth annual new American art song concert featuring music written for them by Paul Salerni, Shanan Estreicher, Kim Sherman, Joao Lopes, David Saperstein, Eugene McBride, and Gene Pritsker.

Check out more of Jessica’s work here:

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https://youtu.be/aq0Rb5wTpMo?si=Qowh5DB2eMiWEuWS

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