Jacqueline Ward is a soprano specialising in concert works, recital, and early music. She has performed with orchestras and choirs throughout Australia and internationally, delighting audiences with a voice like “honey sliding down crystal” (The Courier Mail).

With an interest in historical performance styles and during her masters studies at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jacqueline recorded for The Museum of Sydney’s celebrated exhibition “Songs of Home”. Jacqueline performed as a soloist for a number of University ensembles in concert, opera, motet, and large-scale mass. She also premiered recently discovered duet cantata, Regina Coeli by Michael Haydn (1737-1806) in concert with baritone Jeremy Boulton, at which she gave her debut of Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate!

At that time, Jacqueline’s upcoming season included soprano roles with Mosman Symphony Orchestra, St George Chamber Orchestra, and collaborative choirs at St Stephens Uniting Church, including Bach’s Magnificat, B Minor Mass, and Christmas Oratorio, Fauré’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Copeland’s In the Beginning, Schubert’s Missa Brevis in G Major, and Haydn’s The Creation. These plans and her postgraduate studies were dramatically halted when she sustained major spinal, chest, and leg injuries.

After a three years’ rehabilitation, Jacqueline was elated to return to the stage in 2023, wowing audiences with her “formidable musicianship” in recital for acclaimed Tasmanian orchestra Van Diemen’s Band. In the same month, she took home a handful of awards from the City of Hobart Eisteddfod. In 2024, Jacqueline came on board with the Amy Sherwin Fund, giving fundraising performances for the production of a statue to remember Australia’s first international opera singer.

A truly versatile musician, Jacqueline is also an awarded composer and early-career researcher. She has been commissioned by the National Maritime Museum’s 150th Anniversary, Hourglass Ensemble, Aurora Choralis - which won the Sydney Eisteddfod with their performance of her ‘Southern Lights’ - and has been awarded first place in the Australian Songwriting Contest. She has presented research on singing at two international conferences including the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS) and is currently the lead researcher on an interdisciplinary ground-breaking paper pertaining to vocology.

Jacqueline calls many places ‘home’. She grew up on the Sunshine Coast, surrounded by nature, before moving to Newcastle as a young adult where she obtained a Bachelor of Music. She later relocated to Sydney for postgraduate studies, and then to Tasmania where she now lives with her young family.