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, where she is currently starting 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 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, alongside Christian Gerhaher and Gerald Huber in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.

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 continued financial support as a Guildhall School and Hazell Trust Scholar.

Updated September 2025