Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Bay View Music Festival 2012 — Donna Elvira in *Don Giovanni*, Bay View Music Festival 2012

Soprano Jennifer Russo Bowey is an active soloist, recitalist, and church musician based in the tri-state area, equally at home on the concert and operatic stage.

In the summer of 2019, she was a Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera in Colorado, where she performed the role of La Cugina in Madama Butterfly and appeared in the ensemble for a double bill of The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin.

Local operatic highlights include Donna Anna in Lighthouse Opera’s inaugural production of Don Giovanni, covering Birdie in Regina with The Bronx Opera Company, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte with New York Opera Exchange, and Celidora in Mozart’s rarely heard comic opera L’oca del Cairo with Garden State Opera.

On the concert stage, Russo Bowey has performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with both the Queens College Orchestra under Maestro Maurice Peress and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space in Manhattan. She has also appeared as soprano soloist in Haydn’s The Creation, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël.

Russo Bowey earned an Advanced Diploma from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she sang Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Meg in Damn Yankees.

As a young artist, she performed Copper Woman in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath with Sugar Creek Opera, where she was a member of the Danis Wilson Apprentice Artist Program. Additional young artist credits include Alice Ford in Falstaff with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (San Francisco) and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Bay View Music Festival (Petoskey, MI).

Russo Bowey holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she sang the title role in Dido and Aeneas and appeared as soprano soloist in Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël in Jordan Hall. As part of the Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program, she also performed Véronique in Bizet’s children’s opera Doctor Miracle for more than 300 children throughout the Boston area.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Psychology from The George Washington University, where she was a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Russo Bowey currently serves as Cantor and Director of the Children’s Choir at St. Dominic’s Church in Oyster Bay, New York.