With “a voice of rare beauty” (Seen and Heard International, 2022), American countertenor Cody Bowers has received U.S.A. national award recognition from The Sullivan Foundation, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and The George London Foundation for Singers. In 2024 Cody appeared with The Atlanta Symphony in the premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s The Sacrifice of Isaac, the Metropolitan Opera’s El Niño, and sang Basilio in Telemann’s Don Quichotte with Boston Early Music Festival.

In 2025, the artist premiered with Ars Lyrica as Didymus in Handel’s Theodora where ACTX said “Countertenor Cody Bowers was captivating as Didymus---with impeccable intonation and a pure clear voice.” Cody joins Music Before 1800 and Portland Baroque as soloist in Bach’s rarely performed Markus Passion and makes his Carnegie Hall debut in Messiah with the Oratorio Society of NY.

In 2023 he made his Lincoln Center debut with the New York Philharmonic in Handel’s Israel in Egypt and the Houston Symphony in Handel’s Messiah and sang the role of Ruggiero in Alcina with St. Petersburg Opera. Previous engagements include appearances with the Merola Opera at San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Opera Neo, Tanglewood Music Center, and Cantos Para Hermana al Mundo in Torreón, Mexico.

Cody Bowers continues to expand a broad and contrasting list of characters that range from Tolomeo, Handel’s Cesarian foil, the Refugee from Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Federico García Lorca, the celebrated 20th-century poet Golijov’s Ainadamar; Leonardo, the ghostly Greta Garbo impersonator in Gabriela Lena Frank’s opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego; the child in Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges; and Orlando in Orlando.

In concert, Cody has performed numerous works by J. S. Bach including St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor. Other concert credits include Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Ralph Vaughn William’s Mass in G Minor, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mozart’s Mass in D Major.

He is an active member of internationally celebrated ensembles like Gramophone award- winning Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, The Handel & Haydn Society, Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra, The Thirteen, Bach Society Houston, VAE: Cincinnati, Washington Bach Consort, Ensemble Altera, and The Choir at the Church of the Advent.