Jacqueline Zander-Wall joined the faculty in 2006 as Lecturer in Voice.  Raised in Albuquerque, she has returned after many years of singing nationally and internationally.  After receiving three degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara, she studied vocal pedagogy through an international Rotary Scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, and was in the lied class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the Hochschule in Berlin.  She received a diploma as a fellow from the Opera Institute in Boston University, where she studied with Phyllis Curtin.  She has also been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Ost West Musik Akademie, the Britten-Pears School in Alteburg England, the Vienna Meisterkurs, the Vocal Institute in Santa Barbara, and the Music Academy of the West.

Ms. Zander-Wall’s fifty-plus recital credits include programs for the Hamburg Opera, the Hamburg Kammerspiel, the Mahler Verein and the Hugo Wolf Academy Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, the Villa Lobos Ensemble, the Goethe Institute in Boston and Moscow, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the New York Skaneateles Music Festival and locally with Opera Unlimited and the Bosque Chamber Music Society.  At UNM she has performed with the Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and in Bizet’s Carmen, and with the Concert Choir in its performance of Brad Ellingboe’s Requiem and on its new CD.

A proponent of new music, Jacqueline has premiered pieces with the Hamburg Opera, Chaosma in Moscow and Hamburg, “L'art pour L'art” in Frankfurt, “Scala” in Hamburg, Harvard University, the Warebrook Music Festival in Vermont, and the Taiwan Contemporary Ensemble. She has performed with the Boston Lyric Opera, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Arizona Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Utah Festival Opera, Emerald City Opera, and Opera Southwest.  Recently performing the title role in Carmen with the Duluth/Superior Symphony, she has also been a soloist with the New Haven Symphony, the Asian American Symphony, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra X in Houston, the Konzertante Oper Hamburg, and Durango's “Music in the Mountains” festival.