Zoë Jackson

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. 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.

Masterclass highlights include Nicky Spence OBE, Fatma Said and more recently, Thomas Quasthoff at the Wigmore Hall.

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 last summer.

More recent performances include Marschallin from Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (GSMD) Contessa Almaviva from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (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.

Zoë is an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist 2024/25 and a Garsington Opera Alvarez Emerging Artist 2025, where she will be performing in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Beethoven’s Fidelio and Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore this summer.

Zoë won the first prize in the Susan Longfield Award for Sopranos and Mezzos in March and is thrilled to have accepted an offer to study on the Guildhall School Opera Course, where she will begin studies in September 2025.

Zoë is extremely grateful for her continued financial support as a Guildhall School and Hazell Trust Scholar.

Updated 9.4.25