Hailed as an “exciting dramatic soprano” (Opera Canada) with a “command over a powerful range of expressive emotion” (The Whole Note), Jaclyn Grossman's 2024/2025 season features a series of exciting debut performances: Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Edmonton Opera and Nedda in Pagliacci and Nella in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Kelowna. Last season, Jaclyn performed the role of Freia in Das Rheingold with Edmonton Opera and joined the Buffalo Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under JoAnn Falletta.

 

In recent years, she has completed residencies with Pacific Opera Victoria, Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. In the summer of 2022, she was selected as a fellow at both Banff Centre for the Arts and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. During these programs, she performed a diverse range of role excerpts, including Krystyna in Two Remain, Helmwige in Die Walküre, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Anne in Singing Only Softly, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Additional operatic highlights include her portrayal of Gertrud in Hansel and Gretel with Good Mess Opera Theatre and the title role in Henech Kon’s Bas-Sheve, a Yiddish opera presented in its North American premiere with the Ashkenaz Festival, the Milken Center, UCLA, and Yiddish Summer Weimar.

 

A proud co-founder of Likht Ensemble, Jaclyn is passionate about sharing music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust. As a Jewish dramatic soprano, she is eager to explore the intersection of the Germanic repertoire and voices silenced during the Holocaust. Likht’s ongoing recital series, The Shoah Songbook, recently saw performances with the Chattanooga Symphony and Public Libraries, the Canadian Opera Company, the Schulich School of Music, and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. This season, iterations of the Songbook series will see performances with Pacific Opera Victoria and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.

 

Ms. Grossman is a 2023 award winner of the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation, a 2022 winner of the Career Blueprint Award from the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, the 2020 winner of the Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award from Temple Sinai and has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. She is a graduate from McGill University’s Master of Music and Graduate Diploma programs in Opera and Voice where she performed roles including Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites with Opera McGill.