Maria Jette has appeared with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra: the Symphonies of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Charlotte, Santa Rosa and Buffalo; Vocalessence (formerly the Plymouth Music Series), the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, and Los Angeles Master Chorale; and with original instrument ensembles Portland Baroque Orchestra and The Lyra Concert. She has been a regular guest at the Oregon Bach, Victoria Bach and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals, the Oregon Festival of American Music, and on Public Radio International's A Prairie Home Companion. With conductor Helmuth Rilling, she has sung Bach, Mozart and Monteverdi in Germany, Spain, Japan, and Canada, as well as in Minneapolis, New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

Her 45+ operatic roles range from Monteverdi's Poppea and Handel's Cleopatra through Mozart's Pamina, Countess and Fiordiligi, many of them with the late, lamented Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in the Twin Cities. With the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, she starred as the Mrs. in the May 2002 premiere of Garrison Keillor's opera, Mr. and Mrs. Olson. She has performed her own production of Seuss/Kapilow's Green Eggs & Ham for more than 30,000 kids around the USA.

Her lengthy list of premieres includes song cycles by British composers Geoffrey Bush, John Gardner and Ian Kellam, and choral works with extended soprano solos by Judith Weir and John Gardner; and chamber works, songs and cycles by Dominick Argento, Randall Davidson, David Evan Thomas, Steve Heitzeg, Russell Platt and Janika Vandervelde. For her service to new music in the Twin Cities, she was awarded a life membership with the American Composers Forum.

Ms. Jette's discography includes two recordings on the Centaur label: a selection of Benjamin Britten's Folksongs of the British Isles and Melodies of Gabriel Fauré, both with harpist Judith Kogan; Il Passione by Simon Mayr, performed and recorded (for Guild Records) with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra (Ingolstadt, Germany) under the direction of Franz Hauk. She has been featured on several recordings with Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence), including the world premiere recording (Virgin Classics) of Britten's "American" opera, Paul Bunyan; Mozart's Requiem (on Avie) with Andreas Delfs, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and St. Olaf Choir; and a newly-released Messiah with Stephen Alltop and Chicago's Apollo Chorus.

2005-6: a recital of American folksong settings and folksong-inspired song for the The Shedd Institute (Eugene, OR); Sofiya Gubaidulina's Hommage á T.S. Eliot on the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra chamber series; chamber music with the Minneapolis Quartet, Hill House Chamber Players and Chamber Music Society of Minnesota; the world premiere of Francis Grierâ's The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth with Vocalessence; and Mozart's Le Nozze de Figaro (Susanna) with Opera Roanoke. Over the summer, she programmed and sang in a 5-concert Schumann "mini-fest" for the St. Paul Summer Song Festival; toured Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in Australia with the San Luis Obispo Symphony; performed Bach solo cantatas, Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten (#202) and Jauchzet Gott (#51) at the Oregon Bach Festival and chamber music by Maria Newman for the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society; and sang lots of rarely-heard songs of Irving Berlin with Dick Hyman at the Oregon Festival of American Music.

2006-7: Vivaldi's Gloria with the Cheyenne Symphony; Bach's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat with the Grand Rapids Symphony; Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz with the Buffalo (NY) Philharmonic; and locally, Yehudi Wyner's On this Voluptuous Night at Macalester College (Oct. 21); David Evan Thomas' Clarissa with the Blue Baroque Band for Music in the Park (Dec. 3); Latin American song and chamber music at the Shedd Institute in Eugene; Bach's Magnificat and Easter Oratorio with the Grand Rapids Symphony; several performances during Vocalessence's Illuminating Bolcom (April-May); an Edvard Grieg "mini-fest" for the St. Paul Summer Song Festival; more Grieg shipboard with pianist Sonja Thompson on the Prairie Home Companion's Norwegian cruise; and Mahler's Symphony #4 with the Charlotte Symphony.