Hailed as an “exciting dramatic soprano” with a “command over a powerful range of expressive emotion” (Opera Canada, The Whole Note), Jaclyn Grossman's current season features exciting role debuts as Nedda in Pagliacci and Nella in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Kelowna, and as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Edmonton Opera. 

 

Last season, Jaclyn sang Freia in Das Rheingold with Edmonton Opera and was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Buffalo Philharmonic under the baton of JoAnn Falletta as well as concerts with Festival of the Sound and the Collingwood Music Festival. Other recent credits include 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. As a fellow at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, she performed excerpts as 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.  Ms. Grossman has completed residencies with Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme.

 

This season, Ms. Grossman continues the Likht Ensemble’s ongoing recital series, the Shoah Songbook, with Pacific Opera Victoria and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company. Past venues include the Chattanooga Symphony, the Chattanooga Public Libraries, the Canadian Opera Company, and the Schulich School of Music.  As co-founder of the Likht Ensemble and a Jewish dramatic soprano, Ms. Grossman is passionate about sharing music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust and is eager to explore the intersection of the Germanic repertoire and voices silenced during that period. She has appeared in concert and recital with Holy Blossom Arts, Temple Sinai, the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Pacific Opera Victoria, and the IRCPA & Classical 96.3 FM.

 

Ms. Grossman is an award winner of the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation, the Career Blueprint Award from the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, and 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.