Award-winning countertenor Cody Bowers is a 2022 National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and a 2022 George London Foundation Encouragement Award Recipient. Mr. Bowers will perform at Merola Opera Program this summer, and has performed Tanglewood Music Center, Minnesota Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Utah Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, Opera Neo, and Cincinnati Opera Fusion in principle roles like Tolomeo in G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Oberon in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roane Heckle in Jake Heggie’s Great Scott, L’Enfant in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges, Ottone in Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Orlando in Handel’s Orlando, and Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight. On the concert stage, Mr. Bowers has been featured as both an ensemblist and soloist in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain, and has performed with companies like the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Parthenia Viol Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Bach Society Houston, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Vocal Arts Ensemble Cincinnati, Collegium Cincinnati, The Thirteen, The National Cathedral, and Ensemble Altera. Features include repertoire like Mass in G Minor by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Membra Jesu Nostri by Dieterich Buxtehude, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Easter Oratori, and Mass in B Minor. Mr. Bowers is a native of Newnan, Georgia. He earned a Bachelor of Music from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and later a Master of Music in Voice Performance at Rice University. Mr. Bowers is a student of Lynn Eustis.