Zoë Jackson Soprano
Zoë Jackson (Una poenitentium) was robustly Wagnerian, stunningly powerful." — Nick Holmes
Zoë Jackson Soprano
Zoë Jackson (Una poenitentium) was robustly Wagnerian, stunningly powerful." — Nick Holmes
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"Of the female singers, I was much taken by English soprano Zoë Jackson’s sweet yet powerful voice, sparkling when accompanied by mandolin in ‘Neige, neige’, thrilling top notes in ‘Vom edlen Geisterchor’." — Seen and Heard International
Soprano Zoë Jackson is from the North-East of England and is taught by Janice Chapman and Marcus
van den
"Of the female singers, I was much taken by English soprano Zoë Jackson’s sweet yet powerful voice, sparkling when accompanied by mandolin in ‘Neige, neige’, thrilling top notes in ‘Vom edlen Geisterchor’." — Seen and Heard International
Soprano Zoë Jackson is from the North-East of England and is taught by Janice Chapman and Marcus
van den Akker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she is currently on her first year on
the Opera Course. Following being a Head Chorister at Durham Cathedral where she was taught by
Miranda Wright, she has been a member of ‘The Young Musician’s Programme’ at the Sage,
Gateshead, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and a participant of the prestigious Samling
Academy.
Zoë is an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist 2024/25 and a Garsington Opera Alvarez
Emerging Artist 2025, where she performed in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Beethoven’s
Fidelio and Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore this summer.
Masterclass highlights include Nicky Spence OBE, Fatma Said and more recently, Thomas Quasthoff
at the Wigmore Hall and Dame Sarah Connolly in Oxford as part of their Spring Song Weekend.
Opera highlights include singing the title role of Venus in Blow’s Venus and Adonis (Samling Academy
Opera) with the Dunedin Consort, Lady Billows from Britten’s Albert Herring (GSMD) and Suor
Osmina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with West Green House Opera in 2024.
More recent performances include Magda from Menotti’s The Consul (GSMD), Donna Anna from
Mozart’s Don Giovanni (GSMD), and in an Emerging Artist recital with her duo partner Emelia
Noack-Wilkinson, along side Christian Gerhaher and Gerald Huber in the Sheldonian Theatre,
Oxford as part of the Oxford International Song Festival 2024.
In 2025, Zoë also performed as ‘Una Poenitenium’ in Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with the Bach Choir in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and made her debut as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah in Durham Cathedral.
Zoë won the first prize in the Susan Longfield Award for Sopranos and Mezzos in March 2025, she is
a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera award holder, an Ian Smith of Stornoway Legacy Scholar and is
extremely grateful for her support as a Gwen Cately Scholar: The Amar-Frances & Foster Jenkins
Trust, and from the Worshipful Company of Girdlers.
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