Vera Bowser is an American soprano with a degree in Vocal Performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts.  Though originally from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, she has spent the last 20+ years in the Chicagoland area pursuing her education and maintaining a private voice studio. Vera became a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 2010, singing Berlioz’s Lelio, the Cherubini Requiem, Verdi’s Otello, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, as well as their tour to Carnegie Hall in her first year. Since then, she has spent much time continuing to study privately, working in and around Chicago as an operatic and oratorio singer, and refining her teaching with some of the best teachers in the business.