Possessing a voice praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “ravishing fullness,” GRAMMY^® Award-winning soprano Jessica Rivera “has established herself as a singer of uncommon vocal luster and musical intelligence” (San Francisco Classical Review). The dimension and spirituality with which she infuses her performances on international concert and opera stages has garnered Ms. Rivera unique artistic collaborations with many of today’s most celebrated composers, including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jonathan Leshnoff, Nico Muhly, and Paola Prestini, and has brought her together with such esteemed conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Conlon, Robert Spano, Markus Stenz, Bernard Haitink, Teddy Abrams, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Rivera opens the 2023-2024 season singing Gabriela Lena Frank’s Conquest Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, a work she performed and recorded last season with the Nashville Symphony and premiered with the Houston Symphony in 2017. She appears with the Anderson Symphony in “An Evening of Song,” gives a recital at Converse University with guitarist Sharon Isbin and performs twice at the Urtext Festival in Mexico City.

Rivera has appeared in recital halls in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Las Vegas and Santa Fe. She was honored to receive a commission from Carnegie Hall for the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s song cycle The Adulteress. She was recently presented by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Society of the Four Arts, and Wolf Trap in Voices of the Americas, a program featuring works by Ginastera, Chávez, and León alongside pianist Michael Stephen Brown and cellist Nicholas Canellakis.

Rivera’s extensive discography includes releases on the Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch, Naxos, Telarc, Urtext, VIA Records, Opus Arte, CSO Resound, and ASO Media labels. Her performance of John Harbison’s Requiem with the Nashville Symphony and Chorus under Giancarlo Guerrero was recorded and released on the Naxos label in October 2018 and her third release for Urtext, an Homage to Victoria de los Angeles was released in 2022. Ms. Rivera serves on the vocal faculty at Miami University in Oxford, OH. For a complete bio visit jessicarivera.com.

“Jessica Rivera has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Telarc, Nonesuch, Opus Arte, ASO Media, Urtext and CSO Resound”

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