Fine and Performing Arts
dianeowens@creighton.edu
Diane Owens, soprano, has appeared as soloist with The Pittsburgh Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Utah Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Theatre, Opera Omaha, Utah Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Civic Light Opera, Lake Forest Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica del Valle in South America, Ballet West, Pittsburgh Opera, Boise Symphony, and many others. Some of the numerous conductors with whom she has performed as soloist include Keith Lockhart, Donald Pippin, Robert Page, Carl St. Clair, Andreas Delfs, Joseph Silverstein, Robert Bernhardt, Paul Anthony McRae, Stefan Lano, Joseph Giunta, and Stewart Robertson. An advocate of contemporary music, she has sung several world premieres and recorded for the Centaur Records label. Diane has also remained committed to arts education in the schools, and her one-person show “Ready, Set...Opera!” enjoyed more than 100 performances throughout the state of Tennessee and also in Omaha. Awards include First-Prize District and Regional Finalist with the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toronto, First-Prize Regional winner for the MacAllister Awards in Opera (Indianapolis), and Second Prize in the Bel Canto Singing Competition in both Cleveland and Miami. In 2005, Ms. Owens won the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Award in Voice, “the highest honor for an artist in the state.” Also a career educator, she has served on music faculties across the country and currently is a member of Creighton University’s faculty where her students have regularly won top prizes in state and regional competitions. Diane is also a licensed teacher in the state of Iowa, and she holds degrees from the University of Iowa, Carnegie Mellon University, and a Zertifikat from the Goethe-Institut in Germany.
