Singer Jennifer Kayner Honan, a native of Rochester, NY, currently

lives and works in New York City as a freelance musician and music

teacher.

In June of 2023 she sang the lead role of Lucy in The Telephone by

Menotti at the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia (Mexico). In

October of 2023 she sang the role of Mascha from Der Topfere Soldat by

O. Strauss at the Manhattan School of Music. In February, she sang the

role of dater 15 in the opera Speed Dating Tonight by Michael Ching with

Buffalo Opera Unlimited. In April of 2024, she prepared and sang the role

of Yvette (cover) and performed in the chorus of La Rondine by Puccini at

the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Jennifer is an active freelance singer for concerts, recitals and

Liturgical services. She also occasionally subs as a pianist and organist.

She is a soloist for First Lutheran Church in Clifton, New Jersey.

She has studied with Jeff McGhee (Roberts Wesleyan College),

Katherine Ceisinski (Eastman School of Music) Joan Patenaude Yarnell

(Manhattan School of Music) and Chris Nomura (Manhattan School of

Music). She currently works with coach Shane Schag and has also

coached with Alexandra Marcora-Naumenko, and Scott Parry (New York

City Opera). She works with Method acting coach Claire Alexander in NYC.

Jennifer teaches at Anselmo Academy of Music and the Arts in New

York, New York, and for a company based in Chicago, Tiny Tunes, where

she leads music classes for babies and toddlers and their parents at two

locations in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has also taught in Public and

Private schools in Rochester, NY.

Jennifer graduated from Roberts Wesleyan University in December

of 2020 with a BS in Music Education and the Manhattan School of Music

in May of 2024 with her masters degree in Vocal Arts/Classical Voice.

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