Jacqueline Pischorn was born in Graz, Austria and studied singing there at the University of Music and Dramatic Art with Prof. Wolfgang Gamerith. At Trinity College of Music, London she studied with Laureen Livingstone and gained her post-graduate diploma. Jacqueline attended the Britten-Pears School, working with Oliver Knussen and Rosemary Hardy; she sang Slopiewne, a song-cycle by Szymanowski with Diego Masson.
After engagements with First Act Opera International, Opera Omnibus and Garsington Opera, Jacqueline specialised in works of the 20th and 21st century and sang several first performances in London, including a piece by Danny Ledesma: The Emperor of Ice-cream. Jacqueline sang on a Performing Arts Cruise with P&O around the Mediterranean and gave opera concerts and Lieder recitals in Austria, Slovenia and England. She sang Bach, St John Passion and Schütz, Christmas Story with Portsmouth Baroque Choir. A great success was a first performance of a piece (Kyng Orfeo), written for her by Ian Schofield, at Turner Sims Hall in Southampton, accompanied by pianist David Owen Norris. Also part of the programme were songs for guitar and voice, which she had also sung with guitarist David Black in Regent Hall, London. Jacqueline sang Venus in Venus and Adonis in Newbury. Jacqueline sang opera and operetta galas in Graz and in the summer music festival of Breitenau, Styria. She gave a Lieder Recital at South Downs College in Portsmouth with songs by Debussy, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Hugo Wolf and Ian Schofield's Kyng Orfeo. Jacqueline sang at St John's Smith Square in London (Mozart Vespers and Haydn Theresienmesse, St John Passion, conductor: James Gaddarn) and Mozart's Requiem in Cadogan Hall. She sang the part of Anima in La Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo in Newbury. As part of the Chichester Festival Jacqueline sang the part of the Angel in Handel's Jephtha with The Consort of Twelve under Paul Esswood. Jacqueline worked as a singing teacher for the Berkshire Maestros for many years and is the German Language Coach for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Jacqueline has started her new appointment as German language coach for Welsh National Opera for last year's productions of Salome and Wozzeck. In 2010 she continued her work in the productions of Entführung aus dem Serail and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Upcoming engagements as German language coach
Welsh National Opera: Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos, autumn 2010
Deutsche Grammophon, CD-recording, Bryn Terfel (Christmas Songs)
Upcoming singing engagements:
Brahms Requiem, Portsmouth, 16th Oct 2010
Evening with works by Handel, Newbury, November 2010
Lieder recital, South Downs College, December 2010 (Strauss, Schönberg, Webern, Berg, Schubert)
Her book "German Diction for English-speaking Singers" has been published by Caddy Publishing in March 2007. You can buy it online at www.caddypublishing.co.uk
Contact:
Jacqueline Pischorn, 50 Cholmeley Road, Reading RG1 3NB, mobile 07967201818