Rachel Doehring Jackson

biography

Soprano Rachel Doehring Jackson has been praised for her “absolutely loveable, endearing...remarkable” performances (Seen and Heard Intl.).

Jackson opened the ‘23-’24 season with a concert of American song entitled Love After 1950 at Chamberfest Brown County with her frequent collaborator, pianist Dr. Dan Sato. As a 2024 Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Vocal Fellow, her performances included Tania Leon’s In the Field, Susanna in scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro, and a public masterclass on Handel arias with Les Arts Florissant founder, William Christie.

Jackson was a soprano soloist and ensemble member in C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat with The Berkshire Bach Society conducted by James Bagwell. She was one of four prize winners in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem & American Bach Society’s 2024 Biennial Bach Competition for Young American Singers, and won Calliope’s Call Art Song Competition’s “Best Performance of a Non-Contemporary Work.” She also performed in recitals at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, where she is a resident ensemble member and soloist, as well as the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where she sang in program of art song and operatic premieres by composers Alex Weiser, Joseph Rubenstein, Karen Siegel, Rachel J. Peters, and Jeremiah Lockwood.

In recent seasons, Jackson sang in Experiments in Opera’s world premiere podcast opera Aquanet & Funyuns, featuring five mini-operas by composers Kamala Sankaram, Michi Wianko, Aaron Siegel, and others. Excerpts from her latest self-produced recital, “Songs of Devotion: Music for the New Year,” aired on WCNY Radio’s Fresh Ink. 

On the concert stage, Jackson made her Albany Symphony debut in scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) conducted by David Alan Miller in 2017, later returning for the symphony’s American Music Festival. While at Bard Conservatory, she was the soloist in a concert of Mozart songs with world-renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and sang in Steve Reich’s Drumming with Sō Percussion. She was the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall, and in Finzi’s In Terra Pax, with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra. In 2017, she sang NY premieres by Shawn Jaeger and Alex Wieser at The Morgan Library and Museum in conjunction with the exhibit ”I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson.”