Gwen Paker is an award-winning soprano equally at home on the operatic stage and in the concert hall. While studying at the Eastman School of Music with Professor Robert Swensen, Gwen won first prize in the 2022 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition and the 2019 Eastman Voice Department Concerto Competition. An avid performer of opera, Gwen made her professional operatic debut as Gertrude Stein in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and has starred in several productions with Eastman Opera Theatre.
Recent & Upcoming Events
Soloist in Spotlight on Faculty: FEARless Voices
with The Hochstein School
Performed in the Hochstein Performance Hall
November 10, 2023
Hanne (Soprano Soloist) in The Seasons
by Joseph Haydn
with the Finger Lakes Choral Festival
Performed in the Hochstein Performance Hall
July 23, 2023
Dr. Nora Lear in Lear On The Second Floor
by Anthony Davis
with Eastman Opera Theatre
Conducted by Timothy Long, directed by Steve Daigle
Performed in Kilbourn Hall
November 3-6, 2022
Léontine in L'amant anonyme
with Eastman Opera Theatre
Conducted by Wilson Southerland, directed by James Kenon Mitchell
Performed in the Black Box Theater
April 30 and May 1, 2022