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date = "2019-04-07T17:21:15+00:00"
discipline = "Tenor"
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primary_image_credit = "Wilfried Hösl"
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slug = "andrew-owens"
title = "Andrew Owens"
website = "http://www.andrewowenstenor.com/"
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Winner of the Zarzuela prize at the 2015 Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition, American tenor Andrew Owens has quickly built a reputation as one of the most promising singers of his generation, exhibiting a beautiful Italianate timbre, soaring top notes, and effortless agility. 

Andrew Owens’ 2015-2016 season begins with his company and role debut with Florida Grand Opera as Count Almaviva in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, a role he will reprise later in the season for his company debut with North Carolina Opera. He will make his company and role debut with Seattle Opera as Leicester in a new production of _Maria Stuarda_. Mr. Owens also joins Dayton Opera for a double bill performance, pairing the world premiere of Stella Sung's _The Book Collector_ with Orff’s _Carmina Burana_. This summer he debuts with the Caramoor Music Festival as the title role in Rossini's _Aureliano in Palmira_ and as Jaquino in _Fidelio_. Highlights of Mr. Owens’ orchestral engagements this season include his debut with the Bamberger Symphoniker for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

In the 2014-2015 season, Mr. Owens returned to the Theater an der Wien as Chevalier Léon in Milhaud’s _La Mère coupable_. He also debuted at Theater Magdeburg as Tamino in _Die Zauberflöte_ and Camille in _Die lustige Witwe_. The operatic season concluded with his professional lead debut in the US as Don Ramiro in _La Cenerentola_ with Opera Saratoga and with Greensboro Opera. On the concert stage, Mr. Owens appeared as the tenor soloist in _The Genius of Mozart_ at the National Concert Hall, Dublin with the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Owens is a recent graduate of the Junges Ensemble at the Theater an der Wien, where he performed in _La bohème_, _La cambiale di matrimonio_, _Il Trittico_, _Mathis der Maler_, _Le comte Ory_, _Fidelio_, _Attila_, _La Cenerentola_, _La clemenza di Tito_, Vinci’s _Semiramide_, and _I due Foscari_ opposite Plácido Domingo. In concert at the Theater an der Wien, he appeared in _Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo_ opposite Lawrence Brownlee. At the Bayerische Staatsoper as part of the Opernstudio, Mr. Owens appeared in _Les contes d’Hoffmann_, _Sigurd der Drachentöter_, and _Das schlaue Füchslein_. 

Concert and symphonic engagements of past seasons include Schumann’s _Szenen aus Goethes Faust_ with the Cleveland Orchestra, and Lukas in Haydn’s _Die Jahreszeiten_, and First Japanese Envoy in _Le Rossignol_ at the Salzburg Festival as a member of the Young Singers Project. He made his New York City recital debut with the New York Festival of Song in a program entitled _Spanish Gold: Songs of the Iberian Peninsula_ at Merkin Hall.

​Mr. Owens is an award recipient from the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Mario Lanza Competition, Gerda Lissner Foundation, and the George London Foundation. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he appeared as Laurie in _Little Women_ and the Maryland Opera Studio, where he sang Nemorino in _L’Elisir d’Amore_ and as A Man with Old Luggage in _Postcard from Morocco_.

In his free time, Andrew is an avid yoga enthusiast who also enjoys cooking, songwriting, and supporting his hometown Philadelphia sports teams.