About
"One of the most successful programming choices was the presentation of vocal literature on four of the five concerts, all featuring soprano Jennifer Foster. Foster’s facile vocal agility, dramatic range and ability to draw an audience into her world made her performances memorable events."
– The Tucson Citizen
In Concert
Coast to Coast
From left to right: Boston First Night at The Mother Church; Vermont cabaret with singer-songwriter Corey Laitman ; chamber music in Tucson; Rapunzel at the Cabrillo Festival in California with American baritone Sanford Sylvan
International Venues
Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus at the Westport Country Playhouse
Mahler's 4th Symphony with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; performing with Bobby McFerrin at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland
Biography
Consistently lauded as a singer of rare expressive ability and versatility, soprano Jennifer Foster has sung opera, oratorio, recitals and chamber music with world class musicians throughout the United States and Europe. Her many credits include lead and comprimario roles with the Los Angeles Opera, a national tour with San Francisco Opera’s Western Opera Theater, performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Lawrence Foster at the Hollywood Bowl and a duet with Bobby McFerrin at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. She made her Actors’ Equity debut in director Richard Sabellico’s innovative production of Camelot at Pennsylvania Center Stage.
Jennifer has an MFA degree in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Performance Creation Concentration from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal performance from Chapman University in Southern California where she studied with renowned mezzo-soprano Janet Smith. She has also studied at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in England, the American Center for Music Theater Training in Los Angeles in its Opera Intensive and Professional Music Theater Workshops, the Aspen Music Festival and the Verbier Festival and Academie in Switzerland where her coaches included Barbara Hendricks, Elly Ameling, Nicolai Gedda and Robert Tear.
Over the course of her career, she has been honored with awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Western and Southeastern regions, the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, the Long Beach Mozart Festival, and the DeRose-Hinkhouse Religion Communicators Council, among others.
She served as weekly soloist at the international headquarters of The First Church of Christ, Scientist (The Mother Church) in Boston from 1997 to 2004. Among her recordings, she can be heard on Naxos label’s compilation of works by Creole composer Edmond Dédé, and performing a collection of songs by jazz icon Dave Brubeck. Her latest album, “If You Search With All Your Heart,” was just released in June of 2023 on the Watchfire Music label.
An avid teaching artist, Jennifer has been a university guest professor working within both music and theatre programs, and she regularly leads master classes and workshops for singers and actors of all levels in academic, camp, prison, and community settings. She gives private voice lessons as well as coaching for public speakers, pastors, readers, spoken word artists, and podcasters both in her central Florida studio and via phone or online.
