Celebrated by The New York Times as “a rare talent that can send chills down a listeners’ spine, even in familiar music,” soprano JENNIFER CHECK is equally at home on both the concert and opera stage.

During the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Check makes her debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.  She gives recitals and educational residencies at Western Michigan University and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, and performs a program of opera highlights with the Bellevue (WA) Philharmonic Orchestra.  She also continues to expand her list of roles at the Metropolitan Opera, where she sings the roles of Nella in Gianni Schicchi and Sister Dolcina in Suor Angelica.

Ms. Check won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was also awarded the John Browning Memorial Prize and YCA’s Lindemann Vocal Chair.  Young Concert Artists presented Ms. Check’s debut recitals in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center.

A member of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program from 2001-2003, Ms. Check made her Met debut as Clotilde in Norma, sharing the stage with Jane Eaglen and Dolora Zajick.  She performed the roles of Celestial Voice in Don Carlo, Fifth Maid in Elektra, and Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor.  She also appeared with the Met on tour at the Salzburg Festival under James Levine.  Since completing her term with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Check performed the role of Liù in Turandot with the Met in the Parks, and has returned to the main stage as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Guardian in Die Frau ohne Schatten, the Priestess in Aïda, and Lisa in Cyrano de Bergerac with Placido Domingo, and covered the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni on the Met’s tour of Japan.  She has also sung the Fifth Maid in Elektra with Tokyo Opera Nomori under Seiji Ozawa.

Ms. Check made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2001, singing Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York, and has subsequently performed Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Hall.  She has performed Mozart’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 with the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Norwalk and Charlotte Symphonies, Verdi’s Requiem with the Symphony of the Mountains (TN), and has been soloist in Haydn’s Mass No. 10 (Theresienmesse), Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem at Spoleto USA, and Mahler’s Second Symphony at the Verbier Festival.  She has also performed excerpts from Fidelio in a concert with the Opera Company of Philadelphia.

Ms. Check won a 2006 Gerda Lissner Prize, and Second Prize in the 2006 Palm Beach Opera Competition.  Her numerous other prizes include the Zarzuela Prize in the 2003 Operalia Competition, sponsored by Placido Domingo, and First Place awards in the Loren L. Zachary Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, the Mario Lanza Scholarship Auditions, and the Liederkranz Annual Scholarship Awards.  She was awarded a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and the Leonie Rysanek Memorial Prize from the George London Foundation. 

Ms. Check studied at The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College.  She is featured in the role of Young Woman in Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street on a recording made at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and released by Chandos Records.

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