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The American soprano, Rachel Doehring Jackson, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelor of Fine Arts: 2016) and the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she was mentored by the famed soprano Dawn Upshaw (Master of Music degree: 2018).
Rachel Doehring Jackson was a soprano soloist and ensemble member in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Magnificat with The Berkshire Bach Society conducted by James Bagwell. She was one of four prize winners in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem & American Bach Society’s 2024 Biennial Bach Competition for Young American Singers, and won Calliope’s Call Art Song Competition’s “Best Performance of a Non-Contemporary Work.” She also performed in recitals at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, where she is a resident ensemble member and soloist, as well as the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where she sang in program of art song and operatic premieres by composers Alex Weiser, Joseph Rubenstein, Karen Siegel, Rachel J. Peters, and Jeremiah Lockwood. In recent seasons, she sang in Experiments in Opera’s world premiere podcast opera Aquanet & Funyuns, featuring five mini-operas by composers Kamala Sankaram, Michi Wianko, Aaron Siegel, and others. Excerpts from her latest self-produced recital, “Songs of Devotion: Music for the New Year,” aired on WCNY Radio’s Fresh Ink.
On the concert stage, Rachel Doehring Jackson made her Albany Symphony debut in scenes from W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) conducted by David Alan Miller in 2017, later returning for the symphony’s American Music Festival. While at Bard Conservatory, she was the soloist in a concert of W.A. Mozart songs with world-renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and sang in Steve Reich's Drumming with Sō Percussion. She was the soprano soloist in Francis Poulenc's Gloria at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall, and in Finzi’s In Terra Pax, with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra. In 2017, she sang New York premieres by Shawn Jaeger and Alex Wieser at The Morgan Library and Museum in conjunction with the exhibit ”I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson.”
Rachel Doehring Jackson opened the 2023-2024 season with a concert of American song entitled "Love After 1950" at Chamberfest Brown County with her frequent collaborator, pianist Dr. Dan Sato. As a 2024 Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Vocal Fellow, her performances included Tania Leon’s In the Field, Susanna in scenes from W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and a public master-class on George Frideric Handel arias with Les Arts Florissants founder, William Christie.
Rachel Doehring Jackson has been praised for her “absolutely loveable, endearing...remarkable” performances (Seen and Heard Intl.). She has been praised by Opera News for giving a “tender fragility” to her performances, ranging from Flaminia in Haydn's Il mondo della luna, to Milica in Anna Sokolovic’s Svadba, a Serbian opera for six women, a capella. She is passionate about programming and producing. Working with Founder Lucy Dhegrae, she was previously the Producer of Resonant Bodies Festival, a festival of contemporary vocal music in Brooklyn, New York. The festival’s legacy album, featuring artists such as Julia Bullock, Caroline Shaw, Arooj Aftab, and Lucy Shelton, received critical acclaim from the New York Times. She lives in Jersey City with her husband. |
