DeVera Bowles, Assistant Professor of Music
BA, Pfeiffer College; MM, East Carolina University
Phone: (701)858-3137
E-mail: devera.bowles@minotstateu.edu

DeVera Bowles is Assistant Professor of Music at Minot State University where she teaches Voice, Voice Methods, Vocal Pedagogy, and Opera Scenes. Mrs. Bowles holds a BA degree in Music Education from Pfeiffer College and a MM degree from East Carolina University. She is currently working on her DMA at Texas Tech. She has been a guest clinician at North Dakota ACDA and NDMEA conventions, and frequently adjudicates for regional and state music festivals.

Bowles, a lyric soprano, is heard regularly in recital, oratorio and opera. In addition to a performance in Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 with the Minot Symphony Orchestra, she has been heard in Western Plains Opera productions as the Dew Fairy, Michaela, Lola, Donna Anna and the Countess. She has sung soprano solo work in The Creation, Messiah, and Elijah with area choruses. She has been a featured soloist at Bismarck Symphony’s New Year’s Eve Gala under the direction of Tom Wellin, and pas performed in Bismarck’s annual Messiah under the direction of David Fandrich. Mrs. Bowles performed Poulenc’s chamber opera for soprano, La Voix humaine (The Human Voice) at Texas Tech University.

Mrs. Bowles holds a BA degree in music education from Pfeiffer College and an MM from East Carolina University. She is currently completing her DMA at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She was an associate instructor of voice while a doctoral student at Indiana University, Bloomington. Solo work at IU includes that title role in Milhaud’s Médée, Donna Elvira, and a soloist in Mozart’s Grand Mass in C Minor performed under the direction of Robert Porco at Alice Tully Hall. Her teachers include recently retired head of voice studies at Eastman School of Music, Dale Moore, Rumanian soprano Virginia Zeana (IU), and Jerry Dolter at Texas Tech University. During the summer of 1999, she attended the Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice, France, where she studied with Dalton Baldwin.