Jennifer Sgroe

Soprano Jennifer Sgroe began her musical career in dance and musical theater before transitioning to opera and classical repertoire and completing her formal studies in music and vocal performance. She is a performer, pedagogue, administrative leader and producer, having put her talents to use in various sides of the performing arts and academia. 

Upcoming performances include Doris in Bernard Slade's play Same Time, Next Year with Papermill Theatre Company (Oct 2015) and Soprano Soloist for Cambridge Symphony's Holiday Pops Concert (Dec 2015). Recent performances and projects include Miranda (cover) in Joseph Summer’s new operatic setting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Premiere, April 2015), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Sinfonietta Nova, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) with Arbor Opera Theater, Lula/Lightfoot McClendon cover (Cold Sassy Tree - Floyd) & Curley’s Wife (Of Mice & Men) with Sugar Creek Symphony & Song.

Highlights from past operatic performances include Adele (Die Fledermaus), Romilda (Xerxes), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Monica (The Medium), Greta Fiorentino (Street Scene), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Phyllis (Iolanthe) and the premiere of the role of Esther in Scott Wheeler’s Democracy (American Opera Projects). Past performances have been with Utah Opera, Commonwealth Opera, Amherst Early Music Festival, New Trinity Baroque, Knoxville Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera del West, Opera New Hampshire, for the General Assembly of The United Nations, and at Carnegie and Radio City Music Halls. Ms. Sgroe is also an active recitalist, having collaborated with pianists Cliff Jackson, James Busby, Nan McSwain and Beverly Soll.

Internationally, Ms. Sgroe has been heard as soloist at the Sastamala Gregoriana Early Music Festival in Karkku, Finland, The Dartington Festival (United Kingdom) under the direction of conductor Graeme Jenkins and with the AIMS Symphony Orchestra (Graz, Austria). Highlight concert performances include the soprano soloist in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at Dartington, Handel’s Messiah with Commonwealth Opera, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, and Schubert’s Mass in A-flat Major in Graz, Austria.

She was a Semi-Finalist in the 2013 Oratorio Society of NY Solo Competition, a winner of the National Opera Association Vocal Competition, the Settimane di Lugano International Festival Competition, the 2010 David Adams Art Song Competition, and the 2010 Opera New Hampshire Vocal Competition. She won 2nd place in the 2010 Boston area NATS Artist Award recital competition and went on to represent Boston as a New England Regional Finalist. She has been named a NATS Foundation Award Winner and a Liberace Scholar for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts.

Ms. Sgroe is also a grant award recipient from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and as a result will present a series of recital programs which focus uniquely upon the maritime culture and history of New England. 

In addition to her previous post as Apprentice Artist with Utah Opera, she has held teaching positions at New York University, the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University. She joined the Voice Faculty of New England Conservatory’s Preparatory & Continuing Education Division in March 2011 and assumed the role of Chair of the NEC’s Preparatory Voice Department in September 2011. She is also the Vocal Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor of Theatre at Dean College where she leads the Musical Theatre concentration.

Her students have gone on to study at leading college and summer voice programs including: University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Hartt School of Music, McGill University, Bard College, Interlochen Summer Music Program, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Bel Canto Institute, University of Oklahoma City Summer Music Program, Westminster Choir College Solo Vocal Artist Program and Oberlin College Vocal Academy.

Ms. Sgroe holds performance degrees from two of the Top 20 Opera Training programs in the US distinguished by The Richard Tucker Foundation including a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music in Opera from The Boston Conservatory and a Doctorate of Musical Arts, also from the University of Kentucky. Her primary voice teachers include Everett McCorvey, Sara Goldstein and Arthur Levy. 

Originally from New York, soprano, Jennifer Sgroe now resides in historic Salem, MA with her husband Matt.