Celebrated by The New York Times as “a rare talent that can send chills down a listeners’ spine, even in familiar music,” soprano Jennifer Check is equally at home on both the concert and opera stage. Ms. Check won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was also awarded the John Browning Memorial Prize and YCA’s Lindemann Vocal Chair.  Young Concert Artists presented Ms. Check’s debut recitals in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center. A member of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Check made her Met debut as Clotilde in Norma, sharing the stage with Jane Eaglen and Dolora Zajick, and sang numerous other roles at the venerable opera house.

Ms. Check made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2001, singing Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York, and has subsequently performed Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Hall.  She has performed as a soloist in numerous other oratorio and choral works throughout the United States and at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

Ms. Check studied at The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College.  During and since completing her studies she has received numerous prizes and grants, including the Zarzuela Prize sponsored by Placido Domingo and second prize in the Palm Beach Opera Competition.