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American contralto Jasmin White “has it all” (VRT News). Their deep, flexible, warm and agile voice exudes charisma that captures an audience from their first note. White possesses a remarkable versatility, adapting both vocal technique and stage presence to seamlessly navigate diverse genres; they can shift from the light and charming demands of Rossini, requiring "a smile, kindness, cordiality, quietly and with the greatest of ease," to the profound depths of Wagner’s drama. In this realm of Wagnerian mystery and power, their mature voice becomes "beautiful and full of pathos, perfectly in their element”.(Knopskaya, Deknopper from Cultuurpakt)

The 24/25 season marks Jasmin White’s first season as a member of the soloist ensemble at Volksoper Wien. This season at Volksoper, White will perform Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame), Jolanthe und der Nussknacker (Martha), La Rondine (Suzy), and Die lustigenWeiber von Windsor (Frau Reich). Earlier in the season, White will make a variety of debuts, including Disinganno in Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Les Arts Florissants, Sorceress in Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and will join Il Pomo d'Oro for two productions, including Alcina (Bradamante) and Jeptha (Hamor) at Madrid’s Teatro Real, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. In spring, White welcomes a trio of Mahler symphonies: Mahler 2 at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, then returning to their home country to perform Mahler 3 with Kansas City Symphony in May and again with Oregon Symphony in June. Finally, White will close out the season in recital with pianist Michał Biel in Bergen, Norway, and a summer tour of Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Les Arts Florissants.

In 2023, White won first place in the Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Norway and second place and the audience-awarded Musiq3 Prize of the Public in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium. From 2022-24, White completed two years of training in the Opernstudio at Volksoper Wien, singing roles such as Martha in The Gospel According to the Other Mary by John Adams, Mary in Der fliegendeHolländer, Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Frau Reich in Die lustigenWeiber von Windsor. During this time, White also debuted at Dutch National Opera as The Historian in the world premiere of The Shell Trial, Teatro dell’opera di Roma as Erste Geist in Schumann’s Manfred, as the mezzo soloist in John Adams’ El Niño with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and American Modern Opera Company, and in multiple concert halls across South Korea for the Queen Elisabeth Competition Winners Recital Tour.

A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a Cherokee-TERO-certified Indigenous fine artist, hailing from Grand Ronde, Oregon, White is also a graduate of the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program at The Juilliard School, the Master of Music in Voice program at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Bachelor of Music in Vocal Arts program at the University of Southern California.