Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is recognized internationally for her stunning interpretations of repertoire ranging from the early baroque to that of today's composers. She has appeared at many of the most distinguished festivals and concert series worldwide, with conductors William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Andrew Parrott, Howard Arman, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Rilling and Robert Shaw.

Ms. Lane has performed in opera and concert with the Tanglewood Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, the New Getty Center, the Frick Collection, Opernhaus Halle, Opernhaus Dessau, Utah Opera, Salzburger Bachgesellschaft, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana, and the New York City Opera, where she performed over twenty roles, including Amastre in its acclaimed production of Handel's Xerxes, voted opera production of the year by USA Today.

The year 1999 marked her debut season with the Metropolitan Opera in productions of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Leos Janacek's Katyà Kabanovà. In the fall of 2003 Jennifer Lane joined the San Francisco Opera for Virgil Thompson's The Mother of Us All and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen.

Jennifer Lane's recent engagements include Brahms' “Alto Rhapsody” with the Lexington Symphony, the world premiere of Libby Larsen's Every Man Jack with Sonoma City Opera (role of Charmian London), Handel's Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Slowik conducting, and performances throughout Spain with Capella Ministrers of Monteverdi's Orfeo (Messaggiera/Speranza). She has also just recorded Rameau's Pygmalion and Handel's Terpsicore with Concert Royal in New York.

Prior engagements took Jennifer Lane back to San Francisco Opera for Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Tschaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. She also sang an all-Handel concert with the New York Collegium, and added two new recordings to her already extensive list of CDs: Schoenberg's song cycle Das Buch Der Hängenden Gärten and his chamber orchestra arrangement of the Lied der Waldtaube (Naxos), and Antonio Caldara Cantatas (Gaudeamus).

Other notable engagements include Purcell's Dido and Æneas at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Spain, and Œdipus Rex in Glasgow, Scotland. She was also heard in performances of Messiah, Andrew Parrott conducting, with the Handel and Haydn Society, and on the subsequent recording released by Arabesque, and with the Orchestra della Toscana in Italy; Stravinsky's Les Noces with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas; and in Händel's Arianna at the Göttingen Festival with Philharmonia Baroque, Nicholas McGegan conducting.
Ms. Lane had previously appeared at the Göttingen Festival with conductor Nicholas McGegan in Ariodante, recorded by Harmonia Mundi USA and winner of a Gramophone Award, and in Giustino (also recorded by HMU). She premiered the title role of Augusta Read Thomas' opera Ligeia, based on the life of Edgar Allen Poe, commissioned and conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich for his own festival in Evian, France; and performed the dual roles of Dido/Sorceress for the Mark Morris Dance Group's production of Dido & Æneas, filmed by Rhombus Media for BRAVO Television, and recorded on CD by CBC Records. The film won awards at both the Banff Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among others, and has been released on DVD.

Ms. Lane has over forty-five recordings on Harmonia Mundi USA, Naxos, Opus 111, CBC Records, Koch International, Newport Classic, PGM, Gaudeamus, Centaur, and Arabesque. Her recent solo disc of Handel arias, “Fury with Red Sparkling Eyes,” was released on Newport Classic. Her solo disc for Koch, “The Pleasures & Follies of Love,” was chosen as disc of the month by the journal Alte Musik Aktuell in Germany. A new solo disc of French airs de cour is available at Magnatune. www.magnatune.com/artists/orinda. With conductor Robert Craft, she has recorded Igor Stravinsky's Threni, Oedipus Rex (Jocasta), A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer, “Two Songs” by Hugo Wolf, arr. Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg's “Gurrelieder” (Waldtaube) on Koch. All are now re-mastered and re-released by Naxos.

From 1996 to 2005, Jennifer Lane was a member of the faculty of music at Stanford University, where, in addition to teaching voice and vocal literature, she produced and directed a period-style production of Dido & Æneas which served as the culminating event in the Music Department's year-long 50th anniversary celebration, an evening of five 20th century American one-act operas, and Mozart's The Magic Flute, and where her 17th century vocal and instrumental collegium musicum celebrated its third year by performing Shadwell & Dryden's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, considered to be the first dramatic opera in English. Lane has taught master classes at Old Dominion University, Mannes College, CW Post University, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Collegio Major Lluis Vives in Valencia, San Francisco Conservatory, and for the San Francisco Opera Young Artists Program. She has also served on the faculties of the Lake Placid Institute, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval/Renaissance and Baroque workshops. Prior to joining the faculty at UNT in January 2007, Ms Lane was associate professor of voice and opera at the University of Kentucky at Lexington for two years, during which time two students of hers won Awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions, and another was a second-place NATS winner.