Bio

In the last couple years of her undergraduate degree, Jessica played Mrs. Buchanan in Street Scene, sang in the opera chorus of The Rake’s Progress, and premiered Princess Gilda in Lori Laitman’s new opera outreach production of The Three Feathers with Florida State Opera. After graduating from Florida State University, she went on to obtain her Master Performance Certificate in Voice from the University of Connecticut under the tutelage of Dr. Constance Rock. There she premiered her first Mozart role as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Jessica has continued to sing Mozart as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), both under the baton of Maestro Christian Schulz at the Vienna Summer Music Festival in Austria. She has also sung Despina (Cosi fan tutte) in the scenes program with Redwoods Opera Workshop. Other notable roles she has recently sung are Noemie in Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon and Suor Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

Jessica’s musical education also includes the CoOPERAtive program headed by Laura Brooks Rice, and  Russian Opera Workshop, founded and directed by Ghenady Meirson.  Jessica performed with the Maidens Ensemble in their production Eugene Onegin as well as the Russian Romances Concert in the latter half of the summer 2018. Jessica has recently made her Hartford Opera Theater debut with their New in November Festival as Titania in Paul Richard’s new opera, The Loathly Lady. She looks forward to debuting another new work with UConn Opera Theater as Miss Johnson in the World Premiere of Bessie and Ma, composed by Douglas Buchanan. During this next year, Jessica plans on finishing her studies with Dr. Constance Rock and working towards completing her Master of Music in Voice Performance.