Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek Performance Faculty: Voice

Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, is a singer, conductor, educator, and composer. She was a member of the world-renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4 and recorded twelve award-winning CDs with the group. Anonymous 4′s performance of the Irish lament “Caoineadh” on Christopher Tin’s album Calling All Dawns, with Dr. Horner-Kwiatek as featured soloist, led to two Grammys for Best Classical Music Crossover Album. 

At Princeton she teaches voice, both classical and musical-theater repertoire, to a wide variety of students from different musical backgrounds and experiences, from beginners to those with professional aspirations. She conducts the Early Music Princeton Singers and is co-director, along with Gabriel Crouch, of the Vocal Consort, part of the Minor in Music Performance. Dr. Horner-Kwiatek has been on the voice faculty at NYU, Fordham and Columbia University. She has also maintained private studios in London, New York and Washington, D.C. Former students include Pulitzer-prize winning singer and composer Caroline Shaw, award-winning soprano Michele Kennedy, and actor Barbara Dana. Her students have been accepted into programs at Yale, NYU Tisch School for the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, UCLA and Oberlin, amongst others. They have appeared as soloists at leading venues such as Carnegie Hall, Davis Symphony Hall, Washington National Cathedral, and Lincoln Center. They sing in renowned ensembles such as Roomful of Teeth, Lorelei, Seraphic Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Pomerium, and Trinity Wall Street Choir. They have also used their love of music and their knowledge of vocal techniques to enter careers in related fields such as speech therapy and arts administration as well as continuing to pursue singing, composing, and conducting opportunities.

She has taught music history and vocal pedagogy at The Juilliard School and Columbia University and gives talks on vocology and vocal health. She is in demand as a clinician and gives vocal masterclasses and ensemble technique workshops, including her vocal pedagogy for composers seminars, which have been presented at universities and conservatories all over the US, including Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Duke University, Montclair University, Princeton University, and SUNY Binghamton.

Dr. Horner-Kwiatek has been a guest soloist with many renowned ensembles and opera companies around the world, including English National Opera, Washington Bach Consort, Royal Opera Covent Garden, The Folger Consort, Distinguished Concerts International New York, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt and Ensemble InterContemporain Paris, performing at many of the world’s leading venues, including Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Disney Concert Hall in the U.S.

She is currently Artistic Director of ModernMedieval, an organization that offers workshops, clinics, and masterclasses for singers and composers. This includes ModernMedieval Voices, a women’s ensemble dedicated to creating programs that combine early music with new commissions. MMV has given performances and residencies throughout the U.S., including NYC Ecstatic Music Festival, Notre Dame University, Liquid Music new music festival, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, the MetLiveArts series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Princeton Sound Kitchen.

As a composer, Dr. Horner-Kwiatek has had her music performed by Locrian Chamber Ensemble, The Folger Consort, ModernMedieval Voices, Early Music Princeton, and Constellation Men’s Ensemble, amongst others.