Mr. Bruce Fowler

Mr. Bruce Fowler
fowlerb@sfasu.edu

Assistant Professor, Voice
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

M.M., Voice Performance, University of North Texas
B.M., Voice and Church Music, Oklahoma Baptist University

Background
BRUCE FOWLER, tenor, is one of the foremost operatic tenors of his generation and has sung with most of the world’s leading theatres, including the Paris Opera, La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood and the theatres of Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, Montreal, Vienna and Brussels. He came to international attention as winner of the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition in 1994 and has been fortunate to collaborate with many of the world’s foremost artists, including Riccardo Chailly, Renée Fleming, Jessye Norman, Sherrill Milnes, Marc Minkowski, Jésus Lopez-Cobos, and Vladimir Chernov.

Mr. Fowler is considered a premiere interpreter of the music of the Italian Bel canto and Baroque eras. His concert and recital repertoire encompasses 9 languages with recent performances in Paris and Lyon and the premiere of David Leisner’s cycle Fidelity at Jordan Hall in Boston. His first recording, Messiah for Telarc was nominated for the Grammy Award and subsequent recordings include Armida for Sony Classical opposite Renée Fleming, the Rossini Stabat mater for Harmonia Mundi, the World Premiere recording of Ibert’s Angelique on Fonit Cetra and Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts.

He has an active recital schedule this season, as well as engagements in Stravinsky’s Perséphone with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski in concerts in Berlin and Barcelona, Semiramide with Deutche Oper Berlin and La traviata with the Akron Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming, he will be heard in The Barber of Seville with Lausanne Opera in Switzerland and La sonnambula with Flemish Opera in Belgium.

In addition to teaching Voice, Lyric Diction, The Professional Singer and Vocal Repertoire, he is Musical Director for SFA Opera beginning with this season’s The Marriage of Figaro and served as Musical Director for Grease in collaboration with the School of Theatre.

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