biography

Soprano Rachel Doehring Jackson is a soloist and ensemble musician based in Jersey City, NJ. She has been praised for her “absolutely loveable, endearing...remarkable” performances (Seen and Heard Intl.).

In the ‘26-’27 season, Jackson showcases her passion for repertoire from all ages. She kicked off the summer as a soloist in David Lang’s The National Anthems at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the Clarion Choir, celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary. She made her Bard Summer Music Festival solo debut in a concerted program of Viennese operetta, as well as a soprano soloist in Haydn’s Missa Brevis in F. This fall, at the composer’s request, she gives the New York premiere of Rome-Prize winner Sheila Silver’s Songs of Resilience alongside soprano Lucy Fitzgibbon. Jackson is the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C Major with St. Bartholomew’s Choir and Orchestra, and she will cover the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra.

This spring, Jackson is thrilled to make her New York City solo recital debut in Incantation, a program inspired by theophany, featuring George Crumb’s Apparition and a world-premiere song cycle by composer Joseph N. Rubinstein. Other recent solo engagements include Mozart’s Requiem (NYC Choral Consortium), J. S. Bach’s Non sa che sia dolore (Emmanuel Music), Nurse in Laura Schwendinger’s Margaret in Love and War, J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion, C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (Berkshire Bach Ensemble).

Jackson’s love of chamber singing has led to engagements with some of the nation’s finest vocal ensembles. This season, she makes her ensemble debuts with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, Voices of Ascension, The Thirteen, and the NY Philharmonic Chorus, and she returns to the Clarion Choir, Musica Sacra, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Consort, and St. Bartholomew’s Church, where she is a staff singer. Last season, she toured internationally with the English Concert in their production of Handel’s Hercules, under the baton of Harry Bicket. She was recently praised for her solo 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).

Jackson was a Finalist in the 2026 National Oratorio Competition in Orlando, Florida, and was one of four prize winners in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem & American Bach Society’s 2024 Biennial Bach Competition for Young American Singers. She has been awarded fellowships with American Bach Soloists Academy (2025), Emmanuel Music’s Bach Institute (2025), and Tanglewood Music Center (2024). She was also a Semifinalist in the 2025 International Joy In Singing Competition and won Calliope’s Call Art Song Competition’s “Best Performance of a Non-Contemporary Work.”

Previous career highlights include the NY Premiere of Tania Leon’s In the Field, Susanna in scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro with the Albany Symphony, Mozart songs with Peter Serkin, and Milica in Anna Sokolovic’s SVADBA, an acapella opera in Serbian for seven women, at Bard Conservatory. Rachel Doehring Jackson holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she was mentored by Dawn Upshaw.