Nicole Jenkins

Style: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Gospel; Rock; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Adjunct Professor of Voice and General Music Education

Bio: Nicole Jenkins, Lyric Soprano – A native of New York, operatic highlights include Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sister Rose in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Sharon Graham in McNally’s Master Class. As a solo artist, Nicole has appeared with the Huntington Choral Society in New York as the guest soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana. After she received her Master of Music degree from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, she attended the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria where she received an Encouragement Award from the 2005 AIMS Meistersinger Competition conducted by Maestro Edoardo Müller and a personal invitation to attend the post-graduate program at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, in Vienna, Austria. Before moving to Austria in the fall of 2006, she was one of fourteen selected to attend the prestigious Renata Scotto Opera Academy summer program in New York. In 2009, she returned to the United States after receiving a contract for the Virginia Opera Spectrum Resident Artist Program. She made her Virginia Opera debut in 2010 as Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and later as Siegrune in Wagner’s Die Walküre. Currently finishing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice-Vocal Performance, Pedagogy and Literature at James Madison University (JMU), she was one of two chosen winners of the JMU School of Music 2020 Concerto/Aria Competition and beginning in the spring, Nicole will serve on the JMU School of Music voice faculty as an adjunct professor. Nicole was also the recipient of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2022 Emerging Leader award and participated in the highly esteemed Intern Program last June at Georgia Southern University.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Gospel; Rock; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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