Jennifer Boesing

Singer/Actor/Director/Teacher, Jennifer Boesing began working professionally as a singer/actor in Minneapolis at the age of nine, where she performed and originated roles with At the Foot of the Mountain Theater Company, Mabou Mines Theater, Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, The Red Eye Theater, Illusion Theater , the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Minnesota Opera.

Jennifer graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City, where she studied acting with Sanford Meisner and Richard Pinter. In 2002 she earned a Masters in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Operatic Performance for her portrayal of Mum in their production of Albert Herring. Locally, she has performed opera, oratorio, and new music theater; her professional credits include work with San Francisco Opera Center, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Pocket Opera, Golden Gate Men's Chorus, Gold Coast Chamber Players, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley Opera, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland Opera Theater, Festival Opera, and North Bay Opera. She has been teaching voice privately since 1998.

Ms. Boesing has a particular affinity for new music. She performed in the premiere of Carla Lucero’s opera Wuornos at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in which she sang the role of Aileen’s Grandmother; in Vivian fine’s opera Women in the Garden with the Berkeley Opera, in which she sang the role of Gertrude Stein; in the premiere of Eric Sawyer’s chamber work Under the Sudden Blue with the San Francisco Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble; the role of Elvira in the premiere of Gang Situ’s new opera, The Grand Seducers: Giovanni Meets Xi-men Qing at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco; in the premiere of Wachsenden Ringen, a song cycle of Rilke poems for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble by Paul Boesing, with the Organ Vespers concert series in Omaha, Nebraska; and the premiere of Joelle Wallach’s song cycle, A Revisitation of Myth, for Mezzo, piano and viola, with the Gold Coast chamber Players in several performances throughout the Bay Area. Boesing is the Artistic Director of the Youth Musical Theater Company (YMTC) a professional training company that brings together professional directors and designers with young theater artists from around the Bay