Jennifer Allor is a Chicago-based pianist from Chapel Hill, NC. This year, she joined the faculty of the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where she serves as music director for the undergraduate opera and vocal coach. In the spring, she will be presenting recitals with soprano Elizabeth Shuman as a Vocal Chamber Music Fellow with Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago.
Jennifer is a graduate of the Chicago Opera Theater/Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University Professional Diploma and Young Artist Program. During the 2021-2023 seasons, she worked on productions of Carmen, The Cook-Off (Shawn Okpebholo), Becoming Santa Claus (Adamo), The Beekeeper (Wang Lu), Król Roger (Szymanowski), and the world premieres of The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing (Justine F. Chen) and Quamino’s Map (Errollyn Wallen) with COT. She has also been an apprentice coach with Prague Summer Nights (Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte), served as pianist and coach for Soo Opera Theatre (La Traviata, La Bohème, Tosca) and recently was principal pianist/coach for Chicago Summer Opera’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
She holds a Professional Diploma in opera from Roosevelt University, a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.