Possessing a voice praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its “effortless precision and tonal luster,” Grammy Award-winning soprano Jessica Rivera is one of the most creatively inspired vocal artists before the public today. The intelligence, dimension and spirituality with which she infuses her performances on great 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 Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano, Markus Stenz, Bernard Haitink and Michael Tilson Thomas. 

An advocate of new music, Ms. Rivera has lent her voice to a plethora of world premieres, including Adams’s opera A Flowering Tree, Frank’s Conquest Requiem, Golijov's opera Ainadamar, Muhly’s The Adulteress and The Right of Your Senses, and Spano’s Hölderlin Lieder, a song cycle written specifically for her. Ms. Rivera made her Santa Fe Opera debut in the summer of 2005 as Nuria in the world premiere of the revised edition of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar. She reprised the role for the 2007 GRAMMY^® Award-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording of the work with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano. 

Rivera’s extensive discography includes releases on the Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch, Naxos, Telarc, Urtext, VIA Records, Opus Arte, CSO Resound, and ASO Media labels. Ms. Rivera serves on the vocal faculty at Miami University in Oxford, OH. jessicarivera.com

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