Soprano Rachel Doehring Jackson enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist and ensemble musician based in Jersey City. Jackson began the 25-26 season as a fellow at the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco. This fall she gives the New York premiere of Pulitzer prize winner Tania León’s In the Field at the Miller Theater. She will also appear 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 will tour Europe and North America with the English Concert in their 2026 production of Handel’s Hercules. She also performs this fall with the Clarion Choir and Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and in programs at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Carnegie Hall with Musica Sacra.

Jackson was a prize winner in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem & American Bach Society’s 2024 Biennial Bach Competition for Young American Singers. Rachel is an avid recitalist and in 2024, she was a Semifinalist in the 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 an acapella opera in Serbian for seven women at Bard Conservatory. Rachel holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she was mentored by Dawn Upshaw.