Zoë Jackson

Soprano Zoë Jackson is from the Northeast of England and is currently in her final year of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying under Janice Chapman and Marcus van den Akker. A former Head Chorister at Durham Cathedral under the tutelage of Miranda Wright, her early training includes the Sage Gateshead's Young Musicians Programme, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and the prestigious Samling Academy.

Zoë was an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist (2024/25) and a Garsington Opera Alvarez Emerging Artist (2025), performing in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. She has performed in masterclasses led by Nicky Spence OBE, Fatma Said, Thomas Quasthoff at the Wigmore Hall, and Dame Sarah Connolly at the 2025 Oxford Spring Song Weekend.

Recent highlights include performing as the Soprano 2 soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at St Paul’s Cathedral with the Bach Choir, as well as various Guildhall opera scenes portraying roles such as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), and Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Looking ahead, she will feature as the soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in September 2026 and will make her role debut as Amelia in Menotti’s Amelia al Ballo for Guildhall’s main-stage opera production this November. Zoë was awarded First Prize in the Susan Longfield Award for Sopranos and Mezzos in 2025 and has been a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award holder and an Ian Smith of Stornoway Legacy Scholar.

She is currently generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Amar-Frances & Foster Jenkins Trust, and the Worshipful Company of Girdlers.

Updated September 2026