Cheryl Bensman Rowe
Cheryl Bensman Rowe, soprano, is known to both new music and early music audiences in this country and abroad. Her voice of "timbral purity with dramatic intensity" (New York Times) has been heard in premieres of works by Steve Reich, Ingram Marshall, Michael Torke and William Bolcom. Orchestral engagements include performances with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Israel Phiharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony and the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra. A former member of the Waverly Consort and Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, she has also performed with the Folger Consort, The Smithsonian Chamber Ensemble and Pomerium Musices. Ms. Bensman Rowe has toured extensively in North and South America, Europe and Japan. Festival appearances include concerts at Aspen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ravinia, Caramoor, Casals, Mostly Mozart, Wiener Festwochen, Holland and Bobigny. A Grammy award winner in 1999, she has recorded for Nonesuch, ECM, CBS Masterworks. She is co-director, with Paul Rowe, of the Madison Early Music Festival, and has appeared this season with Present Music in the premiere of a new piece by Michael Torke.