Summer Aebker has a D.M. in voice performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was a former associate instructor and a student of Costanza Cuccaro. She has performed for IU New Music Ensemble as a guest artist featuring in-residence Pulitzer Prize nominee Kate Soper. Additionally, she performed new music works composed by Cory K. Rubin and Ábel Esbenshade for soprano and chamber ensemble at the Midwest Composers Symposium at the University of Michigan.
Other performances include the role of Mrs. Patrick DeRocher in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and the role of Sardula in Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage, both productions of Indiana University Opera Theater. She has also been a guest soprano for the Indiana University New Music Ensemble in Yie-Eun Chun’s Read My Riddle! for Soprano and Sinfonietta and sang the soprano solo for a performance of Andreas Foivos Apostolou’s De Rerum Natura. She earned her M.M. in voice performance from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) studying under Myra Merritt. While there, she performed the roles of Iöle in Hercules, Phyllis in Iolanthe, and was a guest artist for the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Wolfe Center Gala Opening. Her B.M. in voice performance is from the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (CCM).
Further credits include the role of Sandman in Ohio Project Columbus’ production of Too Many Sopranos, and the Wedding Planner in OperaWorks’ improvisational production entitled Zombie-Apoco-lips in Northridge, California. She is a first place winner for NATS Great Lakes Regional, second place winner of the Dr. Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competition, a finalist in the Nicholas Loren Vocal Competition and the BGSU Concerto Competition as well as third place winner for the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition. Additionally, Aebker is a lecturer of music at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, where she has performed in various faculty recitals.