Acclaimed for his commanding stage presence and inventive artistry, American bass-baritone Eric Owens is equally at home in concert, recital and opera performances.

Opera engagements during the 2007-2008 season include his debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago as General Leslie Groves in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, conducted by Robert Spano. Owens returns to San Francisco Opera as the King of Scotland in Handel’s Ariodante, conducted by Patrick Summers, and portrays Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. His 2007-08 concert season began with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.  He then returned to the Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra for concert performances of Adams’s A Flowering Tree, recorded for release on the Nonesuch label. Additional concert performances this season include Beethoven’s Ninth with Andreas Delfs and the Honolulu Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony, Additionally, Owens returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine for concert performances of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, and to the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Amsterdam to sing A Flowering Tree.

Eric Owens has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and Detroit Symphony, among others, under the batons of Wolfgang Sawallisch, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuri Temirkanov, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Franz Welser-Möst, David Robertson, and Robert Spano.  His discography includes Mozart’s Requiem with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony for Telarc, and Jackie O for Argo.

Mr. Owens appears in Haydn's "Creation" on May 31, 2009. This performance marks his Handel and Haydn Society debut..