Cody Bowers

Biography

Described as "a voice of rare beauty" (Seen and Heard International, 2022), award-winning countertenor Cody Bowers is a Sullivan Foundation Award winner (2022), a National Semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2022), and a George London Foundation Finalist Award Recipient (2022). In previous seasons, Mr. Bowers has sung at The Metropolitan Opera House, San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House, the Stern auditorium at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Opera Neo, and Tanglewood Music Center.

On the Operatic stage, Mr. Bowers continues to expand a broad and contrasting list of characters that range from Tolomeo, Handel’s Cesarian foil, and prince of Egypt; the lost and mysterious Refugee from Jonathan Dove’s Flight; Federico Garcia Lorca, the celebrated 20th century poet and playwright in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, who was martyred during the Spanish Civil War; Leonardo, the ghostly Greta Garbo impersonator who inspires Frida Kahlo to make peace with her troubled life in Garbiela Lena Frank’s new Opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego; the stubborn child who, after being disobedient, is scorned by his own furniture as it comes to life in Ravel’s Lenfant et Les Sortilèges; and Orlando, the conquering hero of antiquity who’s desire to love and be loved drives him into the pits of insanity—and the underworld.

As a concert performer, Mr. Bowers has performed numerous works by J. S. Bach including St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor. Mr. Bowers also considers the annual tradition of Handel’s Messiah to be one of his favorite parts of his career. Other concert credits include Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Ralph Vaughn William’s Mass in G Minor, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mozart’s Mass in D Major.

Mr. Bowers is currently an active member of some of the most acclaimed ensembles in North America, including Grammy Award-winning Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, Handel & Haydn Society, and Apollo’s Fire Baroque. Previously he has sung with Bach Society Houston, VAE: Cincinnati, Ensemble Altera, and The Advent Choir.

Permanently based in New Haven Connecticut, when he isn’t singing, Mr. Bowers enjoys tending to his many houseplants, brushing his two cats Lily & Leonard, and exploring new Ina Garten recipes with his husband.