Biography/Profile

JANE MARSH represented the U. S. at the invitation of the White House in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow where she was the first singer to win the Gold Medal. Ms. Marsh has sung in most of the major festivals, opera houses, and concert halls of the world and, as with sopranos Leontyne Price and Maria Callas, she is a recipient of the New York Handel Medaille for special and exceptional contribution to the world of music. Her prestigious honors are the Presidential Award from the White House, the U.S. Merit Award, the Time/Life Achievement Award, The Mademoiselle Magazine Woman of the Year Award, and the U. S. World News Achievement Award. Ms. Marsh has performed many of the signature Tchaikovsky heroines, as well as the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Invisible City of Kitish and the Maiden Fevronia with Russian Conductor Yuri Aronovitch at Italy’s Festivale di Sagra Umbra and the RAI in Italy. Her repertoire, includes the major roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Bellini, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, also including many international and US television appearances and vast experience on the concert and recital stages, as well as world premieres by Ned Rorem and Gottfried von Einem, with the NY Philharmonic and Salzburg Festival respectively.

Ms. Marsh holds a degree from Oberlin College/Conservatory. She conducts multilingual master classes all over the world in diverse song and opera repertoire and this season will give master classes and lectures on Mahler, Mozart, Mozart & Salieri, and Verdi, in England, Germany, Italy and the USA-including a lecture, Finding a Voice Teacher, Coach & Manager. Showcasing vocal talent focused on one style, she conducted Showcase Master Classes on Mozart & Salieri, Verdi, Bel Canto and Mahler during the European Mozart Weeks in Italy and Germany 2007 and during a recital tour of Croatia and Italy over the summer weeks. Additionally, Ms. Marsh, in the seasonal process of singing all 106 songs of Tchaikovsky, will continue to perform a Mixed Russian, Strauss, Respighi, Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff recital along the Italian/French Rivera in 2007 and two other thematic recital programs on the Italian Songbooks of Marx, Wolf, Respighi & Wolf-Ferrari, and also a Mahler Program in Croatia, as well as a Christmas/Epiphany-Trois Roi themed recital program with pianist Gerd Ohlssen in France, in 2008. Performances of Verdi’s Requiem to be repeated again next season, in addition to concertised performances of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino.

Miss Marsh has also completed a cookbook, Jane Marsh Cooks, Something to Sing About, combining operas, divas, colors and food categories together in poetry, as well as an anecdote book, Jane Talks Anecdotes, recalling numerous humorous, frustrating and interesting career episodes, in addition to two music anthologies based on the themes of Christmas and Encores. She performed recitals honoring the 10th Death Year of Austrian Composer Gottfried von Einem in Italy and Swiitzerland with pianist Gerd Ohlssen, and with pianist Linda Hall, Ms. Marsh performed a recital in NYC, on December 14, 2006, on the theme of Italian Songbooks, where, at the Austrian Cultiral Forum, she introduced a Joseph Marx Italian Songbook new to NYC audiences.

Ms. Marsh travels in June and July 2008 to the Italian & French Rivieras, with performances of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino and Verdi's Requiem, in addition to recitals of mixed Russian composers, Strauss, Respighi & Liszt, in the south of France and Austria, and master classes.

Ms. Marsh begins lectures for the Metropolitan Opera/Metropolitan Opera Guild in NYC, on October 3 & 10, 2007, on the theme of bel canto and the Met Opera's productions of Donizetti's, La Fille de régiment and Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. In May 2008, Oxford University Press will publish her original anthology, Advent & Christmas Songs – Lesser Known Gems from the Masters.