Coloratura Soprano Jennifer Rowley, a native of Ohio, made her professional debut in April 2003 as the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Cleveland Opera, conducted by Anton Copola. Most recently, Ms. Rowley was heard with Chelsea Opera in the New York City 50th anniversary production of Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe in the title role. In the 2007-2008 season, she was a Gerdine Young Artist Apprentice at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. While there she performed in The Mikado as a featured dancer and dance captain, and covered the role of Violetta in La Traviata. The fall took her to Texas, where she was a featured soloist with the Austin Lyric Opera on their annual gala, "Simply the Best!" , singing excerpts from the roles of Sophie, Violetta, Cunegonde, and the Queen of the Night. She then sang Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Opera Company of Brooklyn in December.

This spring, Ms. Rowley was selected as a finalist in the Connecticut Opera Guild, Career Bridges Grant Awards, and Fort Worth Opera's Margueritte McCammon vocal competition's. Recently, she was also a finalist in the Francisco Vinas International Singing Competition in Barcelona, Spain. She has won an honorable mention from the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions and was the winner of the 2nd Annual Little Italy Soprano Competition in New York City. Other recent engagements include: Mde.Hertz in Der Schauspieldirektor and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with The Opera Company of Brooklyn; as well as Ophelia (Thomas’s Hamlet) and Mde.Hertz, in a gala performance with the Martina Arroyo Foundation.

Ms. Rowley has also sung Konstanze with the Martina Arroyo Foundation; Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, the title role of Manon, and Gilda in Rigoletto all at Indiana University, where she completed her master’s studies in the spring of 2005. She was invited as a principal apprentice to The Brevard Music Center’s Janiec Opera Company where, under the direction of Maestro David Effron, she performed the role of Zerbinetta in his production of Ariadne auf Naxos. That same season, she tackled the diverse roles of Juno in Orpheus in the Underworld, and Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Ms. Rowley was chosen as the first “ambassador of the arts” from the Ohio Arts Council to initiate an exchange program between the Instituto Superior del Arte of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina and American conservatories of music. This honorable opportunity afforded her with a full scholarship for study from then Governor Bob Taft of Ohio, and a Certificate of Performance Achievement upon completion. She was a featured guest young artist at the Palace of the Secretary of Arts and Culture of Buenos Aires in the role of Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffman. She was also seen there as Mimi in La Bohème at the Salon Dorado of the Teatro Colón. Reviewers deemed her as “…a beautiful young American soprano of great potential…”

Ms. Rowley has had several oratorio and concert engagements along with her opera credits. These include the Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, and excerpts from J.S. Bach’s Cantata 51 and Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Calvary Episcopal Church in NYC; First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Stephen Smith, and J.S. Bach’s Cantata 51 at the 70th Annual Bach Festival in Berea, OH: the oldest running collegiate Bach festival in the world. She has also sung the Chichester Psalms with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Ms. Rowley holds a Certificate of Performance Achievement from the Instituto Superior del Arte of the Teatro Colón, a Masters Degree with honors from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and a Bachelor’s Degree with Magna Cum Laude honors from the Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory of Music. She was also an awarded apprentice with the Portland Opera Performing Institute, and a Max Kade Scholar at the Middlebury College German for Singers Program.