Andrew Owens

The American tenor Andrew Owens was born in 1983. He began his vocal studies with Enrico Di Giuseppe and continued them at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and with Dominic Cossa at the Maryland Opera Studio. In addition, he took part in the 2011 Vocal Rising Stars Program of the Caramoor Center, a program for young singers in collaboration with the New York Festival of Song. Andrew Owens received the Encouragement Award of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the First Prize of the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition in New York and a special prize at the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition in Philadelphia.

At the Central City Opera in Colorado he sang the role of Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Leon in Thomas Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso and Pluto in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers. In 2010, he was heard as Borsa in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Virginia Opera in Norfolk and as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra.

During his career so far, Andrew Owens has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony, Greensboro Oratorio Society and the Annapolis Chorale, as well as with conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Martin Andre, Christopher Larkin, George Manahan and J. Ernest Green.