About Jacqueline Kaskel...

Jacqueline Kaskel, age twenty-one, is a soprano currently attending Yale University. She is an alumna of the Palm Beach Opera Studio, a highly selective high school vocal program in South Florida. Jacqueline has won first prize in both the 2020 Pathfinder High School Scholarship Award in the Music/Vocal category and the 2019 Robert Sharon Chorale Classical Voice Competition. She was also a finalist in both the 2020 Dreyfoos School of the Arts Concerto Competition and the 2019 Schmidt Vocal Competition at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

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During the summer of 2021, Jacqueline attended the Vienna Summer Music Festival, relocated to St. Petersburg, FL. In 2020, Jacqueline attended the Studio Artist Program at SongFest online as a Schubert Fellow. In 2019, Jacqueline attended the Washington National Opera Institute at American University, and in 2018, she attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Vocal/Choral Intensive. Jacqueline, who has been singing since age seven, has since fallen in love with every aspect of opera and will pursue a career on the stage.