"Zoë Jackson was robustly Wagnerian and stunningly powerful" — Nick Holmes (on Una poenitentium)
"Zoë Jackson was robustly Wagnerian and stunningly powerful" — Nick Holmes (on Una poenitentium)
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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, currently studying under Janice Chapman and
"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, currently studying under Janice Chapman and Marcus van den Akker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she is in her first year of the Opera Course.
Following being a Head Chorister at Durham Cathedral in 2010, where she was taught by Miranda Wright, she became a member of ‘The Young Musician’s Programme’ at the Sage, Gateshead, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and participated in the prestigious Samling Academy.
Zoë was as an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist for 2024/25 and a Garsington Opera Alvarez Emerging Artist in 2025, where she performed in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore this summer. Her masterclass highlights include working with Kate Royal, Fatma Said, and more recently, Thomas Quasthoff at Wigmore Hall, as well as Dame Sarah Connolly during the Spring Song Weekend in Oxford.
Notable vocal performances include 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) in a set of scenes, and an Emerging Artist recital with her duo partner Emelia Noack-Wilkinson, alongside Christian Gerhaher and Gerald Huber at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, as part of the Oxford International Song Festival 2024.
In 2025, Zoë performed ’Una Poenitenium’ in Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with the Bach Choir in St. Paul’s Cathedral and made her debut as a soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Durham Cathedral.
Zoë won first prize in the Susan Longfield Award for Sopranos and Mezzos in March 2025, and 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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