Cody Bowers

Award-winning countertenor Cody Bowers was a National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and a George London Foundation Encouragement Award Recipient. He has been engaged by companies like The Metropolitan Opera, Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Utah Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, Opera Neo, and Cincinnati Opera Fusion in principle roles like Federico Garcia Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, Tolomeo in G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Oberon in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roane Heckle in Jake Heggie’s Great Scott, L’Enfant in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges, Ottone in Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Orlando in Handel’s Orlando, and Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight.

On the concert stage, Mr. Bowers has been featured as both an ensemblist and soloist in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain, and has performed with companies like the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Parthenia Viol Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Bach Society Houston, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, Collegium Cincinnati, The Thirteen, The National Cathedral, and Ensemble Altera. Features include repertoire like Mass in G Minor by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Membra Jesu Nostri by Dieterich Buxtehude, and number other works by J. S. Bach, including St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Easter Oratorio, and Mass in B Minor.

Mr. Bowers is a native of Newnan, Georgia. He earned a Bachelor of Music from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and later a Master of Music in Voice Performance at Rice University.

In his spare time, Mr. Bowers enjoys tending to his many houseplants, petting his cats, and cooking for his husband.