Gwenneth Bean, is a native of Michigan.

She is an alumna of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American artists and a recipient of a grant from the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation and one from the 1985 Richard Tucker Music.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1987 in Ariadne auf Naxos which was later repeated for Live From The Met in the U.S. and Europe. She performed several other roles at the Met including Cavalleria Rusticana and The Tales of Hoffman.

Ms. Bean toured with Leonard Bernstein conducting during the summer of 1985. In 1986, she performed with Bernstein again in his opera A Quiet Place in Vienna.

She debuted in Carnegie Hall in 1987 and again in 1988

She has performed with many symphonies including: New Jersey Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Akron Symphony and orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Stamford Chamber Orchestra and at the Pine Mountain Music Festival as well as some opera companies.

In 1997 she performed Romeo and Juliet with Opera Grand Rapids and Mahler #8 with the Grand Rapids Symphony and returned to do Faust in the 1998 season.

Ms. Bean has an active schedule of concerts, recitals, master classes and sings The National Anthem at many sporting events.