Kate Jackman

Called “winningly wily and dauntless” by Boston Classical Review, American mezzo-soprano Kate Jackman is a multifaceted musician and actress who excels in a variety of musical expression.

On stage, Kate performed the lead role in Oliver Knussen’s Higglety Pigglety Pop! at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music and “touchingly incarnated Jennie” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker). Her other roles include Amneris in Verdi’s Aida, the title role in Carmen, and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. She has also premiered several roles with Urban Arias in Washington, DC and Fargo-Moorhead Opera.

Kate’s passion for Art Song performance led her to make her Kennedy Center recital debut in 2012. She has been featured at Carnegie Hall in Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues series, at Seiji Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center, and in the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, under the tutelage of Stephanie Blythe.

In concert, Ms. Jackman has performed solos from Handel’s Messiah at the Kennedy Center, with Helena Symphony, and over internationally televised programming with The Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C.

This season, Kate is thrilled  to be joining the cast of Sweeney Todd  with The Helena Symphony. She will also be a soloist in The Thirteen’s production of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, and will present a charity  recital at The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, TX, in honor of her late mother-in-law, Kelly Hoffmann Jackman.