Jacqueline Pischorn

Language Coach

Jacqueline works as a German language coach for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Royal Conservatoire, Welsh National Opera, WAVDA, Wales Academy of Voice and Dramatic Arts, and as a singing teacher for Downe House School and Dauntsey‘s School.

Jacqueline Pischorn was born in Austria and studied singing at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Graz and at Trinity College of Music in London. At the Britten-Pears School, she studied contemporary music with Oliver Knussen and Rosemary Hardy.

Oratorio performances include Mozart’s Vespers and Bach‘s St John Passion at St John's Smith Square, Mozart's Requiem at Cadogan Hall, and B Minor Mass in Southwark Cathedral, each with James Gaddarn. She sang Messiah with Oxford Sinfonia.

Jacqueline gave Lieder recitals in Austria, Slovenia and the UK, working with pianists David Owen Norris, Peter Rhodes, Adrienne Black, Donald Books and Beata Formanegg.

In 2016, Michael McCartney and Jacqueline formed a guitar and voice duo performing works by rarely performed composers from the early 19th Century. Jacqueline has also worked as a German language coach for: WIAV, Wales International Academy of Voice, Morley College London, De Nationale Reisopera, Nederland (Johannespassion, Siegfried) and Longborough Festival Opera (Rheingold).

Her book "German Diction for English-Speaking Singers" was published by Caddy Publishing in March 2007 and republished in second edition by Augarten Press in 2017.