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Welsh Soprano, Jessica Cale, is the 2020 First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Joint Audience prize winner at the 2020 London Handel Festival International Singing Competition. In 2022, Jessica made her European and house debut at Teatro La Fenice playing 2nd Niece in Britten’s Peter Grimes in addition to making her role and festival debut as Susanna in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro for Waterperry Opera Festival. Jessica is a Samling Artist and has given recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival and St Martin in the Fields.
Jessica is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio with an Artist Diploma in Opera and a Master of Performance with distinction. Whilst at the RCM, Jessica was the Robert Lancaster Scholar and is hugely grateful for the additional support of an Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, the Josephine Baker Trust and the Countess of Munster Trust Jessica’s operatic roles whilst at the RCM include the title role of Rodelinda (Handel); Flaminia (Haydn’s Il mondo della luna), Susan (Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement) and Second Bridesmaid (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro). Jessica has also performed Despina (Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte) and Serpetta (Mozart’s The Garden of Disguises) for Ryedale Festival Opera. Royal College of Music Opera Scenes include Blanche (Dialogues des Carmelites, Poulenc); Juliette (Romeo et Juliette, Gounod); Poppea (L’incoronazione de Poppea, Monteverdi); Tina (Flight, Dove); Musetta (La Boheme, Puccini); and Melisande (Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy). Jessica has participated in Masterclasses Sir Mark Elder, Dame Ann Murray, Gerald Finley, Edith Wiens and Roger Vignoles.
On the concert platform, Jessica has performed under the batons of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen, Christian Curnyn, Ian Page and Brian Kay. Notable concert highlights include: Britten’s Les Illuminations in Vilnius, Lithuania for the British Ambassador; Bach with the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall; Jessica’s debut at Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists; Porpora and Handel at Bilbao’s Musika Música Festival with Arcangelo, Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at the London Handel Festival, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Berlin Philharmoniker. Jessica has performed as soprano soloist for recordings with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment of Bach’s St John Passion alongside Gerald Finley and Mark Padmore, and ‘Telling Tales with Telemann’ alongside Tabea Debus. Jessica is proud to be an Associate Artist of The Mozartists, performing regularly with the group under the direction of Ian Page and participating in their educational outreach projects.
Jessica is a keen recitalist collaborating regularly with pianists George Ireland and Ella O’Neill. Recent highlights include Jessica’s debut performance at the Oxford Lieder Festival alongside George and gaining 2nd prize in the Bampton Classical Opera Singing Competition with Ella. Jessica is very proud of her Welsh heritage, competing in the final of the 2021 Welsh Singer’s Showcase and winning 2nd prize at the 2019 Llangollen International Eisteddfod Pendine Voice of the Future competition.
In her spare time, Jessica enjoys yoga and beach walks in her home county of Pembrokeshire. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jessica and her husband, Dominic Brennan (Fine wine investment consultant), set up a new venture combining their mutual love of music and wine. ‘Tasting Notes’ offers online and in-person wine tasting events led by Dominic at which Jessica performs musical interludes enabling participants to sit back and enjoy both wine and music. If you are interested in booking Jessica & Dominic for a private Tasting Notes event then please do head to the Contact page to fill in a contact form.
Please use the Contact page if you wish to obtain a copy of Jessica's biography. Not to be reproduced without permission.
Jessica is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio with an Artist Diploma in Opera and a Master of Performance with distinction. Whilst at the RCM, Jessica was the Robert Lancaster Scholar and is hugely grateful for the additional support of an Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, the Josephine Baker Trust and the Countess of Munster Trust Jessica’s operatic roles whilst at the RCM include the title role of Rodelinda (Handel); Flaminia (Haydn’s Il mondo della luna), Susan (Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement) and Second Bridesmaid (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro). Jessica has also performed Despina (Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte) and Serpetta (Mozart’s The Garden of Disguises) for Ryedale Festival Opera. Royal College of Music Opera Scenes include Blanche (Dialogues des Carmelites, Poulenc); Juliette (Romeo et Juliette, Gounod); Poppea (L’incoronazione de Poppea, Monteverdi); Tina (Flight, Dove); Musetta (La Boheme, Puccini); and Melisande (Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy). Jessica has participated in Masterclasses Sir Mark Elder, Dame Ann Murray, Gerald Finley, Edith Wiens and Roger Vignoles.
On the concert platform, Jessica has performed under the batons of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen, Christian Curnyn, Ian Page and Brian Kay. Notable concert highlights include: Britten’s Les Illuminations in Vilnius, Lithuania for the British Ambassador; Bach with the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall; Jessica’s debut at Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists; Porpora and Handel at Bilbao’s Musika Música Festival with Arcangelo, Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at the London Handel Festival, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Berlin Philharmoniker. Jessica has performed as soprano soloist for recordings with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment of Bach’s St John Passion alongside Gerald Finley and Mark Padmore, and ‘Telling Tales with Telemann’ alongside Tabea Debus. Jessica is proud to be an Associate Artist of The Mozartists, performing regularly with the group under the direction of Ian Page and participating in their educational outreach projects.
Jessica is a keen recitalist collaborating regularly with pianists George Ireland and Ella O’Neill. Recent highlights include Jessica’s debut performance at the Oxford Lieder Festival alongside George and gaining 2nd prize in the Bampton Classical Opera Singing Competition with Ella. Jessica is very proud of her Welsh heritage, competing in the final of the 2021 Welsh Singer’s Showcase and winning 2nd prize at the 2019 Llangollen International Eisteddfod Pendine Voice of the Future competition.
In her spare time, Jessica enjoys yoga and beach walks in her home county of Pembrokeshire. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jessica and her husband, Dominic Brennan (Fine wine investment consultant), set up a new venture combining their mutual love of music and wine. ‘Tasting Notes’ offers online and in-person wine tasting events led by Dominic at which Jessica performs musical interludes enabling participants to sit back and enjoy both wine and music. If you are interested in booking Jessica & Dominic for a private Tasting Notes event then please do head to the Contact page to fill in a contact form.
Please use the Contact page if you wish to obtain a copy of Jessica's biography. Not to be reproduced without permission.