Bio
Katelyn Grace Jackson (née Aungst) grew up in Berks County, Pennsylvania and has spent a good portion of her singing career in Washington, D.C. She grew up singing in the Berks Youth Chorus, taking piano and dance lessons, listening to Rachmaninoff, Howard Hansen and Samuel Barber, and attending countless church picnics to hear her mother play the flute with Ringgold Band. Despite being surrounded by music, her first loves were reading and writing, and she dreamt of becoming a novelist and poet. This early exposure to music ranging from the art music canon to John Philip Sousa Americana, a deep love for the written word and a knack for choral singing led to a professional career as a soloist and chamber musician propelled by a desire to connect and communicate with other musicians and audience members alike.
Hailed by the Washington Post for her “supple, haunting soprano,” Katelyn performs as a featured soloist and chorister with intelligence and “particular purity of tone” (San Francisco Classical Voice). She has soloed with the American Bach Soloists, Washington Bach Consort, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, City Choir of Washington, Cathedral Choral Society, the Washington Master Chorale, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. Her choral and chamber experiences boast recording Dame Ethel Smyth's The Prison with the Experiential Orchestra & Chorus (2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album), and performances with The Thirteen, Clarion Music Society, Third Practice, Ensemble Altera, and Three Notch’d Road.
She currently resides in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania with her husband Christopher and their cats, Echo and Nyx (Bear).
