Jessica Aszodi

Jessica Aszodi is a mezzo-soprano, writer, educator and performer. Jessica’s work crosses between opera, experimental music, improvisation, composition, and music theatre. Her unusually wide and flexible range makes it possible to perform repertoire across genres and voice types. From Mozart, to Mahler, to Berio, Boulez and popular music styles, she has built up a truly idiosyncratic set of techniques. Jessica has cycled while singing on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall, performed body percussion so fierce it leaves a mark, and mastered a not small number of extremely extended vocal techniques. She has twice been nominated for Greenroom Awards as ‘best female operatic performer’ - in both the leading and supporting categories.

Jessica has performed as a soloist with opera houses and ensembles around the world including the London Sinfonietta, Wiener Volksoper, Nederlands Reisoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, ICE, Pinchgut Opera, the Tirolean Symphony Orchestra, Victorian Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, and in the San Diego and Chicago Symphony Orchestras chamber series. Her Festival appearances include the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Festivals, Darmstadt, Aldeburgh, Tectonics, Tanglewood, Klangspuren, Beethoven Festwoche, Resonant Bodies, Vivid Sydney, Aspen and BIFEM. A passionate exponent of new work, she has performed important premieres by collaborators including Liza Lim, Augusta Read Thomas, Dai Fujkura, Anthony Pateras, Cathy Milliken and Laura Bowler.

Jessica also holds a Doctorate from the Queensland Conservatorium, and continues an artistic research and teaching practice focused on the materiality and politics of embodiment practices in the creation of new vocal performance. She has written articles for several books and journals and teaches workshops on the bodily as well as theoretical applications of her research. She takes pleasure in the process of creating thick, touching, thinking, pieces.