Created in 2009, The Bowers-Fader Voice and Guitar Duo is Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano, and Oren Fader, guitar faculty at The Graduate Center, CUNY, whose mission is to promote New American Art Songs for mezzo and guitar, through commissions, performances, and recordings.

Their debut CD, “Between Us All”, was recently reviewed by the American Record Guide:

“This collection of songs for mezzo and guitar is simply delicious; the deep oak of Jessica Bowers’s lower range and the lush honey of her higher range mix well with the steady and sensitive guitar playing of Oren Fader. From Paul Salerni’s Something Permanent with its striking texts concerning the most everyday of every day life to the sumptuous Canzoni Italiane by Scott Wheeler, which transports listeners to the most beautiful summer day in some small Italian village in some time past, to Tim Mukherjee’s Folk Song Settings that take the well-known and re-contextualize it in a surprising and pleasurable way, this is a lovely peek into the truths of humanity through the lens of Bowers, Fader, and their instruments.”

Bowers Fader Duo will also be releasing a song cycle written for them by William Anderson on the Furious Artisans label. In November, they will record songs written for them by Frank Brickle. 

More information about the Bowers Fader Duo’s upcoming season can be found here.

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