Devonna is a Performing Artist and Educator. She has studied with Addison Reed, Martha Flowers, Todd Duncan, George Shirley, Adele Addison, Rick Christman and Mary Ruzzika. Devonna has performed at the National Theater in Washington DC on the Cheekwood Concert Series, with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Susquehanna Orchestra and the Columbia Orchestra. 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 by Gilbert and Sullivan, Clara in Signor Deluso by Pasatieri, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Marcellina in the Marriage of Figaro. She gave the World Premier performance of George Walker’s Five Songs for piano and voice during a National Black American Music Conference. A guest artist and workshop leader for the Choral Arts Society of Washington DC, the Kennedy Center, United Arts of North Carolina and Southern Arts, Ms. Rowe is also an artist with the Maryland State Arts Council’s Artist in Education Program. She was chosen by the White House as a guest artist to work with students from New York’s Private Schools during their Cultural Arts visit to Washington DC.
In January of 2008 Rowe worked with UMCOR in Lake Charles, Louisiana an area devastated by hurricane Katrina. Recently she performed as soprano soloist with the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra in a concert for the Haitian Relief Fund. Rowe is a member the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and Opera America. Her travels and performances have taken her throughout Europe, Russia, Switzerland and Japan. Teaching positions include Morgan State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University/Blair School of Music and Peabody Institute of Music/John Hopkins University. Devonna has a BA degree from St. Augustine’s College and a MM degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has studied at the Aspen Music School, Aspen Colorado, in the AIMS program in Graz, Austria as well as additional studies toward the D.M.A. degree at the Catholic University of America.
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