Jacqueline Zander-Wall

Distinguished Recital and Festival Performances

Over 100 recitals include those at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Hamburger Kammerspiel, Longy School of Music, and Hamburg’s Opera Stabile. She has performed solo chamber works with numerous music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival:Arvo Part, Bernstein’s Aria’s and Barcaroles, De Falla Seite Canciones Populares with Guitar, Brahms, Britten, Haydn vocal Quartets, At the Skaneateles Music Festival Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Brahms songs with Viola, George Crumb’s Night of the Four Moons, Handel Cantata, Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Music in the Mountains, Britten-Pears Festival(Songs of the Chinese), Hugo Wolf Akademie works by Fanny Mendelsohn and Reichardt, Monteverdi’s Proserpina at the Chicago Opera Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Monteverdi Festival, and Taos Chamber Music (Loeffler and Brahms.)

She has been a oratorio soloist with Robert Shaw(Honegger), the Valdosta Symphony(Haydn), the Asian American Symphony(Handel), The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the New Mexico Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony, the Duluth Superior Symphony and others. A prolific performer and lover of Bach Cantatas, she has been the Mezzo Soloist in Cathedrals throughout Germany including the Flensburger Bach Chor, the Santa Barbara Oratorio Society, The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus, The New Mexico Bach Choral, Quintessence, and Durango’s Music in the Mountains. After a master’s degree from the University of California in Santa Barbara, she received a Rotary Scholarship to study in Hamburg. Further fellowships include the Boston University Opera Institute, the Music Academy of the West, the Ost West Musik Academie, the Britten Pears School, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Utah Festival Opera.

Opera credits include touring leading roles with the Boston Lyric Opera with Phillip Glass in Akhnaten and with Lukas Foss in the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County , the Chicago Opera Theater as Proserpina in Monteverdi’s Orfeo and the same role at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Monteverdi Festival. Zander-Wall sang the Page in Salome with the Arizona Opera, Garcia Lorca/De Falla staged program with the Hamburg Opera, Carmen with the Duluth Superior Symphony, Second Lady New Haven Symphony, Dorabella with Orchestra X in Houston, Tender Buttons: a premier on Gertrude Stein in Scala in Hamburg. Zerlina, Carmen, Maddelena, and Meg Page with Opera Southwest, Frasquita, Taumanchen and Sandman along with Dvorak Te Deum with the Hamburg Konzertante Oper. Letters from Mozart with the Emerald Opera in Steamboat Springs. Stefano in Romeo and Juliet, Hermia and Helena in Midsummer Nights Dream productions in Boston and Santa Barbara.

Educational Contributions and Art Song Advocacy

She has served on the Voice Faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, the College of Santa Fe, and the University of New Mexico. In 2008 she founded the Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival, to inspire and encourage students of singing and piano in the state of New Mexico. In an effort to magnify the importance of the arts, Zander-Wall has created a Festival “from the community, for the community” in which over 10,000 of scholarships are awarded to interested and dedicated students each year in solo public performances. A new language and area of Art Song is explored each year feeding the teachers and the students in their continued exploration into the world of Art Song. She currently serves as the President of the Albuquerque Music Teachers Association, a subdivision of the Music Teachers National Association.