Jillian Tate, a versatile soprano hailing from Northern Virginia, recently earned her Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale University under the tutelage of Gerald Martin Moore. While at Yale, Ms. Tate was heavily featured in Yale Opera scenes, her roles including Sophie in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, Peter in Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Soeur Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.
In spring 2024, she performed as Fanny in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio and as Brigitta in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Yale Opera. A passionate concert artist, Ms. Tate has appeared as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Waterbury Symphony and performed Margaret Bonds’ The Ballad of the Brown King with the Greater New Haven Chorus. She was also featured as a soloist with Yale Philharmonia in the New England premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s JFK: The Last Speech in November 2023.
Ms. Tate was honored to be named a winner of the Boston District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in December 2023. She also attended the prestigious Music Academy of the West in 2023, studying with some of the industry’s leading professionals. Prior to her studies at Yale, Ms. Tate performed as a soloist in I Dream by Douglas Tappin with Opera Carolina and appeared as a featured soloist at the Kennedy Center’s Reach Opening Festival.
Ms. Tate holds a Master of Music from Yale, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Maryland, where she studied with renowned Mezzo-Soprano Delores Ziegler.