Rachel Doehring Jackson

biography

Soprano Rachel Doehring Jackson enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist and chamber artist based in Jersey City. She has been praised for her “absolutely loveable, endearing...remarkable” performances (Seen and Heard Intl.) of repertoire spanning the Renaissance through the modern day. 

Jackson kicked off the ‘25-’26 season as the sole soprano fellow at the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco, where she performed as a soloist in cantatas by Bach and Handel. This fall, at the composer’s request, she gives the New York premiere of Pulitzer prize winner Tania León’s In the Field at the Miller Theater alongside pianist Han Chen, soprano Sophie Thompson, and the Bergamot Quartet. She will also appear as the soprano soloist in Schubert’s Mass in C with the choir and orchestra of St. Bartholomew’s Church, where she is a staff ensemble member and soloist. A sought-after choral artist, Jackson performs this fall with the Clarion Choir and Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Carnegie Hall, with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, and in programs at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Carnegie Hall with Musica Sacra, which she joins this season as a core member. She recently made her Musica Sacra solo debut in Allegri’s Miserere, where she “performed the iconic high C with expressive tone and color; her final ‘cry’ was more human and celestial—personal, plaintive, and immediate” (Katheryn Felt, New York Classical Review). 

The 24’-25’ season saw Jackson as a Tanglewood Music Center fellow, where she enjoyed interpreting a wide variety of styles ranging from Susanna in scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro with the TMC Orchestra, to Tania León’s In the Field, in which she “soared above the ensemble” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). In her recital performance of songs by Joaquin Rodrigo, her “lustrous soprano voice along with her evident warmth and charm brought these songs vividly to life” (David M. Rice, Classical Source). A lover of Baroque and Renaissance music, Jackson was awarded the sole soprano fellowship at Emmanuel Music’s 2025 Bach Institute, led by Pamela Dellal and Ryan Turner, and she returned to Berkshire Bach Society in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas as Belinda, having previously appeared as the soprano soloist in C.P.E Bach’s Magnificat. She also performed as a soloist in workshop performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass with MasterVoices, and the St. John Passion with Juilliard415. Jackson was one of four prize winners in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem & American Bach Society’s 2024 Biennial Bach Competition for Young American Singers.