Over fifty recital credits for American mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Zander-Wall include the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft, the Hamburg Mahler Verein, the Villa Lobos Ensemble, the Goethe Institute in Moscow and Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  Ms. Zander-Wall has performed Chamber Music with the New York Skaneateles Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, and throughout Germany.  A proponent of new music, Ms. Zander-Wall has sung with L’art pour l’art in Frankfurt, Chaosma in Moscow and Boston and Hamburg’s improvisatory Scala Theater.

Recently performing the title role in Carmen with the Duluth/Superior Symphony, she has also been a soloist with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, the Asian American Symphony, Konzertante Oper Hamburg, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and Durango’s Music in the Mountains Festival.

As an oratorio soloist she has performed with Robert Shaw, Canticum Novum, the Flensburger Bach Chor, and Cathedrals in Hamburg, Wismar, and Lubeck. She has sung the role of Proserpina with the Monteverdi Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Chicago Opera Theater.  Other opera credits include the Boston Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Southwest, Emerald City Opera, and the Hamburg Opera.

After receiving a Master of Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara, she received a diploma from Boston University’s Opera Institute.  She has been a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, the Britten Pears School, the Vienna Meisterkurs, the Ost-West Musik Akademie, and the Hochschule fur Musik in Hamburg and Berlin.  Her primary teacher is Elizabeth Mannion.  She has also worked extensively with Phyllis Curtin, Dietrich Fiescher-Dieskau, and Suzanne Danco.

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