Soprano Jennifer Rowley, a native of Ohio, burst onto the international scene as a last minute replacement in the title role of Donizetti's Maria di Rohan at the 2010 Caramoor Music Festival, a performance she gave with just one day's notice and one rehearsal. The New York Times called her "impressive... throughout, [Ms. Rowley] sang with a fluid, darkly rich voice and expressively conveyed Maria's anguish," and the Associated Press raved that "Rowley proved fully equal to the demands of a role that requires both coloratura dexterity and dramatic power beyond the limits of a lyric soprano. She can sing with melting purity, but her voice also takes on an intriguing, dark-tinged color at times." "Her voice is large and luscious, a truly important instrument wedded to wonderful interpretive powers," Playbill Arts added. Ms. Rowley's previous role, as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opera New Jersey, was equally praised, with reviewers likening her to such great sopranos as Sutherland, Moser, and Vaness. Her upcoming engagements include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2011.

Ms. Rowley made her professional debut in 2003 in Die Zauberflöte with the Cleveland Opera, conducted by Anton Coppola. More recently, during the 2008-2009 season, she joined the Scuola dell'Opera Italiana at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, where she made her main stage debut as Magda in La Rondine. In 2009, Ms. Rowley made her Avery Fisher Hall debut in New York City in the Mid-Autumn Chinese Festival concert, which she followed in the Spring of 2010 with Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Michigan Opera Theatre. Ms. Rowley's other roles include Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Musetta in La Bohème, many of the Mozart heroine's including Elettra in Idomeneo, and Elvira in I Puritani.

Ms. Rowley was the winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Michigan District, a finalist in the 2009 Opera Index and Jensen Vocal Competition's, and was awarded an Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant for her international work with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy. She was a Gerdine Young Artist Apprentice at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 2007 where she covered Violetta in La Traviata, and was a featured dancer and dance captain in The Mikado. Other young artist opportunities include a summer each with the Caramoor Music Festival, Brevard Music Center and Portland Opera's POPI. Ms. Rowley also spent a summer in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Instituto Superior del Arte of the Teatro Colón, where she was the first Ambassador of the Arts for the Ohio Arts Council, initiating an exchange program between the Instituto and American conservatories of music.

Ms. Rowley holds a Master's Degree with honors from Indiana University School of Music and a Bachelor's Degree with Magna Cum Laude honors from the Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory of Music. She also holds a Certificate of Performance Achievement from the Instituto Superior del Arte of the Teatro Colón, and was a Max Kade Scholar at the Middlebury College German for Singers Program.