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The American soprano and voice teacher, Jessica Kathrin Cooper Morgan, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance, with Honors and Distinction, from San Diego State University (1997); her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance, with Honors and Distinction (1996-1999) and her Master of Music degree in Opera Performance, with Distinction (1997-2000) from New England Conservatory. She was a 2003 and 2004 finalist in the New England Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council for Auditions, and competed twice nationally to secure first place at the New England National Association of the Teachers of Singing National Competition.
Jessica Cooper began her professional career as a musician in Boston in 2000 and has appeared with many of the New England top performing groups as both a soloist and an ensemble member. She has been praised by the Boston Globe for her “warm, sizable” voice, “agile, attractive and full of character,” and hailed as “a welcome addition to Boston’s top rank of Handel sopranos.” She sang soprano in Philovox (February 2006-January 2013); and has made solo appearances with the Boston Baroque (Director: Martin Pearlman) (since 2009), Boston Cecilia (since January 1998), Handel & Haydn Society (since September 1998); Director: Harry Christophers) (since 2009), Chorus Pro Musica, Bach Collegium San Diego (Director: Ruben Valenzuela), True Concord, Tucson Chamber Artists, and Arcadia Players. Her solo engagements with companies include the La Jolla Symphony, Boulder Bach Festival, Exsultemus, Emmanuel Music, Musica Sacra, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, Wellesley Symphony Orchestra and Nashua Symphony, and spoke as a featured guest on WGBH 89.7, "Classics in the morning." She was also Soloist/Section Leader at All Saints Brookline (1998-2017), and sang with the Marsh Chapel Choir of Boston University (Director: Scott Allen Jarrett).
Jessica Cooper has been Voice Teacher at Powers Music School (2001-2017), Rhode Island Philharmonic School of Music (2006-2008), Chelmsford School of Music (2006-2007), and Franklin School for the Performing Arts (1999-2003). She has also been Education Outreach at Powers Music School (2018-2019); on the Faculty at St. Paul’s School, New Hampshire (since 2017); a faculty member (Associate Professor) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has taught applied voice since 2006, and Musical Theater History since 2010, and actively participates in the university’s culture of social justice, diversity, urban and global engagement, working to promote equitable experiences for all UMass Boston students regardless of age, economic or cultural backgrounds. She is very active in her work at creating inclusive “environments of courageous sharing” there and in her voice studio that seeks to affirm her students’ identities through the arts. She helped to spearhead a virtual webinar series in the Performing Arts Department, “Affirming Identities Through the Arts.”
Jessica Cooper was recently appointed Community Relations Director of NATS Boston, and is the founder and artistic director the Henry Purcell Society of Boston (since April 2013), a non-profit specializing in historically informed performance of music from the English Baroque repertoire. She has appeared in several recordings (2005-2015), including the Grammy award winning"Far in the Heavens", "Prayers and Remembrances", with the True Concord ensemble and orchestra. She married Nick Morgan on May 23, 2022, and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. |
