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About Jasmin
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.
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Queen Sonja Competition 2023
Oslo, NorwayAug 2023... The result was almost a given. For the kind of stage presence, excess and charm that first prize winner Jasmin White brought to the market square in Bjørvika on Saturday evening, one will have to look for a long time. You could see it as soon as they entered the podium - cheerful and full of energy with clothes, hairstyle and jewelry that led the mind in the direction of Aïda . Their voice ... was deep, soft and powerful in their expressive and dramatic performances ... And when the award ceremony was completed with another round of Semele, a slight grimace showed the humor that always seemed to be lurking and caused the audience to burst into laughter. We can hope that the first prize will bring them to Norway before too long.
- Klassisk Musikk
- 01 August 2023
Queen Sonja Competition 2023
Oslo, NorwayAug 2023We have been looking for a winner who has the complete package.’ And no other singer managed that feat with the same commitment as White did. The Oregon-native was fierce and poised in both pieces, their powerful voice cutting clearly into the hall with clarity of sound and diction. They might have been standing in front of an orchestra, but as an audience member, you could feel the scenes they were inhabiting. The other singers in the competition all managed their own immersive moments, but no one quite managed to sustain you in their dramatic world quite like White did.
- OperaWire
- 01 August 2023
Askonas Holt sends 26 artists and touring partners to BBC Proms 2025

This morning saw the announcement of this summer’s BBC Proms’ line-up, which is set to include performances from 26 Askonas Holt artists and touring partners.
Our Tours and Projects team is proud to once again be bringing the Wiener Philharmoniker to the Proms, following our 2019 collaboration with the orchestra and Bernard Haitink in what marked not only the year of the legendary maestro’s 90th birthday but also the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut. This summer we bring the Wiener Philharmoniker back to the Royal Albert Hall with Franz Welser-Möst for two performances – the first with Berg’s Lulu Suite paired with Bruckner’s Symphony No.9, and the second, Mozart’s Symphony No.38 Prague alongside Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 Pathétique.
Cristian Măcelaru and the Orchestre National de France also return in collaboration with Askonas Holt for a French-themed programme that includes Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and La valse, as well as Bologne’s Violin Concerto and Chausson’s Poème, both with soloist Randall Goosby.
Our Tours and Projects team also brings mandolinist Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble for their Proms debut as they take the audience on a sonic tour of the countries that border the Black Sea, performing traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer plus works by Bartók and Fazil Say.
Sir Simon Rattle gives two performances this summer; the first sees him team up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra for folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s trombone concerto. He follows that with his first performance with The Chineke! Orchestra conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10.
Having recently been invited to become an Honorary Member, Robin Ticciati joins the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with soloist Golda Schultz for a programme of songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill alongside Schreker’s Chamber Symphony and Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird. The appearance marks Robin’s first with the COE at the Proms and the ensemble’s first appearance since their 2017 performance under Bernard Haitink.
Edward Gardner is back with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for a 20th-century programme of Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade.
Thomas Adès leads the BBC Symphony in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela.
Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic are joined by trumpeter Pacho Flores in his Proms debut for Arturo Márquez’s Concierto de otoño presented alongside Dvořák’s Symphony No.9 From the New World and Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral.
Peter Whelan makes his Proms debut conducting the Irish Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s Alexander's Feast with countertenor Hugh Cutting as soloist. The performance marks the ensemble’s Proms debut, making them only the second Irish orchestra to perform at the Festival in its more than 125-year history.
Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka returns with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 with soloist Vadym Kholodenko, alongside Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra. Recent signing Benjamin Grosvenor also joins forces with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Ryan Bancroft for Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.
Cellist Johannes Moser presents the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s concerto Before we fall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Eva Ollikainen. Next month sees Johannes give the world premiere of the piece with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Dalia Stasevska.
Four Askonas Holt singers make debuts in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District with the BBC Philharmonic. Amanda Majeski, John Findon and Ava Dodd all make their Proms debuts as Katerina, Zinovy and Aksinya/Convict respectively, while Nicky Spence returns making a role debut as Sergey.
Also making their Proms debuts are Jasmin White who joins the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi for Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, and Sarah Dufresne who also makes a role debut singing Sister Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano.
Jess Dandy and Ashley Riches return with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra singing Stravinsky’s last major work - the Requiem Canticles, and Laurence Kilsby joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Arthur Bliss’ The Beatitudes.
Outside of London, Benjamin Hulett joins the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Glasshouse as soloist for Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.2 Lobgesang. Also at the Glasshouse, Ema Nikolovska celebrates the centenary of the birth of Pierre Boulez with his Le marteau sans maître as part of a touring project with guitarist Sean Shibe and friends.
The BBC Proms 2025 runs from Friday 18 July to Saturday 13 September, with all performances broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and streamed on BBC Sounds. To view the full line-up, please click here.
- Amanda Majeski
- Ashley Riches
- Ava Dodd
- Avi Avital
- Benjamin Grosvenor
- Benjamin Hulett
- Cristian Măcelaru
- Domingo Hindoyan
- Edward Gardner
- Ema Nikolovska
- Hugh Cutting
- Jasmin White
- Jess Dandy
- Johannes Moser
- John Findon
- Laurence Kilsby
- Nicky Spence
- Pacho Flores
- Peter Whelan
- Robin Ticciati
- Sarah Dufresne
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Tadaaki Otaka
- Thomas Adès CBE
- Avi Avital: Between Worlds
- Orchestre National de France
- Wiener Philharmoniker
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