Tenor Jeffrey Hess is an active educator, adjudicator, and performer throughout the Twin Cities and across the Midwest. He has sung with the Minnesota Opera, appearing in productions of Lucrezia Borgia, Die Zauberflöte, and the American premiere of Orazi e Curiazi. His extensive solo credentials include appearances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Drake University, the University of Minnesota Bach Festival, the Paramount Center for the Arts in St. Cloud, and the Minnesota Center Chorale.
On the operatic stage, Dr. Hess has performed leading and featured roles such as Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos, Mayor Upfold in Albert Herring, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, and the title role in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Notably, he sang the cantor role for the European premiere of Stephen Paulus’s Holocaust memorial oratorio, To Be Certain of the Dawn—a role he has since reprised multiple times. Dr. Hess served as tenor section leader with both the Minnesota Chorale and Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul for fourteen years.
An experienced educator, Dr. Hess has taught music at all levels, from elementary to collegiate, across the Midwest and Europe. He joined the faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, in the fall of 2012.
Dr. Hess holds a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota, where he studied under Glenda Maurice.
To learn more, visit Dr. Hess's LinkedIn profile.
MUS-252: Voice
MUS-352: Voice
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, D.M.A. (Vocal Performance)
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, M.M. (Vocal Performance)
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, B.A. (Music and Applied Music)