Jennifer Aylmer has a reputation for her beautiful voice, compelling stage portrayals, and sensitive musicianship. The New York Times hails her, "awesome accuracy," while the Chicago Sun-Times recommends listeners, "bask in the aural delight of Aylmer's dazzling shifts from regal command to cool insouciance and fatally attractive seduction." 

Ms. Aylmer is particularly noted for her work in newly composed American music, including her 2005 Metropolitan Opera debut as Bella in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy, and appearances with Kyo-Shin-Arts in NYC, and the newly formed contemporary ensemble, NAT 28, in Pittsburgh, PA. Other premieres in the operatic arena include Martha in Kirke Meachem’s John Brown with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Rowena in Augusta Read Thomas’ Ligeia and as Cynthia Reid in Bernard Rands’ Belladonna both with the Aspen Music Festival, and at Houston Grand Opera, and she created the role of Amy in Mark Adamo’s Little Women. She may also be heard on the 2012 release “The Opera America Songbook” on Kevin Puts’ new composition: “You need song.”

A native of Long Island, Ms. Aylmer holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Westminster Choir College and was a member of both the Juilliard Opera Center and the Houston Grand Opera Studio Programs. Her many honors and awards include the Alice Tully Hall Vocal Arts Debut Recital (from the Juilliard School), a Career Grant from the Sullivan Foundation, the Richard F. Gold Career Grant, an award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and the Catherine Filene Shouse Career Grant from the Wolf Trap Opera Company.