Philadelphia-born soprano Tiffany
Jackson was raised in New Haven, Connecticut. She earned a Bachelor of
Music from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music and Artists
Diploma from Yale Universiy, School of Music. In 1997 Ms. Jackson
joined the Houston Grand Opera Studio, where she originated the role of
Alma March in the world première of Mark Adamo’s Little Women, sang the
Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and was featured in new productions of
Carmen and Hansel and Gretel. During the following two years in Houston
she sang Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Priestess in Aida, Anna in
Nabucco opposite Samuel Ramey and Nedda in I Pagliacci. In 2001 she
returned to Houston to reprise the role of Mercedes. An artist with the
Aspen Opera Theater Center for three seasons, Ms. Jackson performed
Euridice in Milhaud’s Les Malheurs d’Orfée, Fiordiligi in Così and
Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. In 2002 Ms. Jackson made her debut with
Virginia Opera as Fifth Maid in Elektra.
Also much interested in orchestral repertoire, Ms. Jackson has appeared
numerous times with the New Haven Symphony in Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony, Mahler’s Second Symphony, the role of Marzelline in a concert
performance of Fidelio and in Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise in a concert
commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With the Aspen Chamber
Orchestra she performed Beethoven’s Egmont Incidental Music and with
the Charlotte Symphony Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. After winning Yale’s
prestigious concerto competition, she sang Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder
with the late Eleazar de Carvalho and in 2001 made her debut in the
Verdi Requiem with the Lithuanian National Symphony. This season Ms.
Jackson is appearing with the Bridgeport Symphony in Richard Strauss’s
Four Last Songs and with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie
Hall. She has worked with such noted conductors as Christoph
Eschenbach, Patrick Summers, John DeMain, Laurence Foster, Gustav Meier
and Sebastian Lang-Lessing, also with pianist Roger Vignoles, with whom
she appeared at the Bath Festival and on the BBC in England.
Ms. Jackson has been an artist with the Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood
Music Festival, Sunriver Music, Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany,
Nordland Festival in Norway, Pazaislio Festival in Lithuania and she
has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival to which Christoph
Eschenbach had invited her as guest, with him at the piano, in a
recital of “Eschenbach and Friends.” In 2003 she appeared with the
ZĂĽrich Tonhalle Orchester in a concert version of Porgy and Bess and
later that year she was privileged to be asked by Oprah Winfrey to go
to South Africa with the company and was able to meet there former
President Nelson Mandela at the World Aids Day Concert in Capetown and
visit an elementary school in Cranisbrooke, a Zulu area, where she
shared songs with the South African children.
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