Devonna's profile

Devonna B. Rowe is a performing artist and educator.  The soprano received her DMA in Vocal Performance from Catholic University of America, a MM from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Music Education from St. Augustine’s University. Additional studies include the Aspen Music School and the AIMS Program in Graz, Austria. Rowe’s teachers and coaches include Addison Reed, Martha Flowers, Todd Duncan, George Shirley, Adele Addison, Mary Ruzzika, Fabiana Bravo, Henrietta Lund and Rick Christman. Her career has taken her throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Russia and Africa. She gave the World Premiere performance of George Walker’s “Five Songs for Piano and Voice” during a National Black American Music Conference. She has performed at Eggenberg Palace, Castel Sankt Martin, the National Theater and the John F. Kennedy Center. The soprano has performed with organizations such as the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Susquehanna Orchestra and the Columbia Orchestra. A soprano with a versatile and extensive range, her operatic roles include, the Countess in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”, Clara in Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”, Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s, “The Medium”, “Iolanthe” in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, Clara in “Signor Deluso” by Pasatieri, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte”, Marcellina in the “Marriage of Figaro” and La Zia Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.  She performs Musical Theater and works by Latin American and contemporary American composers as well.
Devonna performed Catalan and Portuguese songs at the Barcelona Festival of Song in Spain with one performance being live streamed to an audience in Brazil.  In September of 2016 Rowe presented a Benefit Concert for the Center for the Arts of Harford County Maryland.   This event helped to raised  funds for the cultural arts center that will be built in Bel Air. Maryland. 

Honors and awards include a music fellowship from opera singer Leontyne Price, the Choral Arts of Washington’s Excellence in Arts Education Award, an Excellence in Arts Education award from the Delaware State Teacher’s Association, Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as a Governor’s Award from the State of Maryland for exemplary service to the community. In May of 2016 Rowe was given the honor of being selected as an Indispensable Black Faculty member by the Black Faculty and Staff Association of John Hopkins  University. 

Dr. Rowe has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Blair School of Music/Vanderbilt University, Aspen Music School, Aspen Colorado, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.  As an artist  she has worked in many venues.  Sailing the Potamac, an event sponsored by the White House, allowed Rowe to teach young people history through  music and the arts.  She brings history and culture to life during her presentations.    Rowe has participated as an artist with the Maryland State Arts Council's Artist in Education program, United Arts and as a consultant with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  She has served as on the GFO Music Panel with the Maryland State Arts Council and she serves as an  adjudicator for National Vocal competitions.    She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and she is the District Governor of the MDDC Chapter.  Rowe is a member of  Opera America and the National Association of Music Education (NAME).  Devonna continues as a consultant through Devonna B. Rowe Productions LLC in the areas of  Voice, Performing Arts and Arts Education programs.   Arts Education programs are available for schools and cultural arts organizations.   She is in demand as a recitalist and performer throughout the US.  Dr.  Rowe is currently on the voice faculty  of Peabody Instiitute, Johns Hopkins University.

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