Clara Osowski

Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski’s 2025-26 season includes performances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under Ken-David Masur in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra for Holidays at the Hotel. She sings Vivaldi cantatas and arias with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Mozart’s Requiem with the Bach Society of St. Louis, and returns to the Schubert Club for both a Courtroom Concert and a recital tour of the UK. Additional highlights include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Seattle Bach Festival and Boulanger songs with the University of Washington Orchestra. She last appeared with Music of the Baroque in March 2024.

Recent engagements include Copland’s Old American Songs and Handel’s Messiah with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Mozart’s Requiem with the Rochester Philharmonic; Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Requiem, and Pärt’s Stabat Mater with the South Dakota Symphony; Handel’s Messiah with the Kansas City Symphony; Mozart’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Elijah led by Ken-David Masur with the Milwaukee Symphony; her London debut at Wigmore Hall; Handel’s Jephtha (also released on recording) and Bach’s St. John Passion with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Delaware Symphony. A frequent collaborator with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Clara Osowski has also performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Dominick Argento’s Casa Guidi and A Few Words About Chekhov.

Clara Osowski earned her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with an emphasis in Voice from North Dakota State University in 2008, where she was later honored with the 2022 Horizon Award for professional success. She received her Master of Arts in Voice from the University of Iowa in 2010 and was recognized as a 2018-2019 McKnight Artist Fellow for Musicians, administered by the MacPhail Center for Music.

Clara Osowski serves as the Artistic Director of Source Song Festival, a week-long art song festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota.