About Jamie

With polished, elegant vocalism and committed dramatic portrayals on-stage, mezzo-soprano Jamie Van Eyck appeals to audiences and critics alike as a compelling artist in opera and concert. She has performed with opera companies including Arizona Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Austin Opera, Utah Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Madison Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Wolf Trap Opera. Prominent roles include Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Ruggiero in Alcina and the title role of Ariodante (Handel), Meg in Little Women (Adamo), and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw (Britten).

Jamie has been featured in concert and opera at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Ojai Festival, Bard Music Festival, Five Boroughs Music Festival, and the Princeton Festival. She has been a soloist with many of the nation’s top orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, American Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, Utah Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Austin Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Madison Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, as well as the major oratorios by Bach. International festival appearances include Toronto’s Luminato Festival, Moscow’s Golden Mask Festival, and the Grahamstown and FynArts Festivals during a 4-week performance tour through South Africa.

Bridge Records released Jamie’s second recording for the label titled, Complete Crumb Edition Volume 15, featuring George Crumb’s American Songbook V: Voices from a Forgotten World. The disc has been praised as “consistently wonderful” and “not to be missed” by Classics Today. She has also recorded for Albany Records and Centaur Records, and she is a soloist on the American Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. Jamie can also be heard in the roles of Queen Alkmene in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae and Milli in Schreker’s Der Ferne Klang, recorded live at the Bard SummerScape Festival. A proponent of new American music, Jamie has sung two world premiere performances at Carnegie Hall, including a song cycle written for her by Ned Rorem titled, Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. She performed excerpts from new operas on Fort Worth Opera’s Frontiers Festival. At Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, she performed the role of Mama in the staged premiere of Elliott Carter’s What Next. For her leading role, the Hartford Courant proclaimed that she “performed beautifully with exacting musical precision and strong charisma.” Her performance can be seen on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s DVD release of the opera.

A frequent recitalist, Jamie has appeared in repeat engagements with the Wolf Trap Foundation, the Dallas Museum of Art Concert Series, and the Five Boroughs Music Festival. Recent recitals include a performance on the Atelier Concert Series at the American Church in Paris with pianist Joseph Li, and a solo recital at The Opera America Center with pianist Jocelyn Dueck.

Jamie made her Broadway debut in Jerome Kern’s Music in the Air with the Encores! series at New York City Center and has been a soloist in pops concerts with Keith Lockhart and Marvin Hamlisch for the Utah Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap.