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With “a voice of rare beauty” (Seen and Heard International), countertenor Cody Bowers is a 2022 Sullivan Foundation Award winner, a National Semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and a George London Foundation Finalist Award Recipient. In previous seasons, Mr. Bowers has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, 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 including Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Federico Garcia Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, Leonardo in Gabriela Lena Frank’s new opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego, L’enfant in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges, and the title role in Handel’s Orlando. As a concert performer, Mr. Bowers has performed J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor, as well as Handel’s Messiah, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Ralph Vaughan William’s Mass in G Minor, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mozart’s Mass in D Major.