Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman, one of the world‘s most celebrated performing artists, is acclaimed for her performances in a wide range of leading roles with the world’s premier opera companies, in solo recitals and in concerts of her cherished classical repertoire with preeminent orchestras all over the globe, as well as her latest artistic expansion with her jazz ensemble.

Her collaborations with artists of other disciplines is a hallmark and include: Bill T. Jones, Steve McQueen, Garth Fagan, Laura Karpman, and Robert Wilson among many others.

She is the recipient of a number of awards and accolades including more than forty honorary doctorate degrees from colleges, universities and conservatories around the world, five Grammy awards including the lifetime achievement award’, the National Medal of the Arts … a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.

Her community service includes trustee board memberships at Carnegie Hall, The New York Public Library, The New York Botanical Gardens and The Dance Theatre of Harlem.

The Jessye Norman School of the Arts in her hometown of Augusta, Georgia is now in its fourteenth academic year.

Photo credit: Carol Friedman