Jenny Wollerman
SOPRANO
At the launch of 21x21 Beneath the Trees album and scores December 2023 with Jian Liu, Michael Norris, Helen Fisher and Aiono Manu Fa'aea.
Jenny Wollerman is one of New Zealand’s best known sopranos and has been a soloist with all the major arts organisations within New Zealand. Her performances in Australia have included Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with Tasmanian Symphony and Ravel’s Shéhérazade song cycle with the West Australian and Adelaide Symphony orchestras.
Noted for her expressive interpretations of new works, she has premiered numerous compositions including Anthony Ritchie’s Stations: Symphony No. 4, which was nominated for MusicWeb International’s ‘2014 Recording of the Year’. Other album recordings include the song recital Between Darkness and Light with pianist Michael Houstoun, and Making Light of Time, songs by Ross Harris and Vincent O’Sullivan, with pianist Jian Liu and the New Zealand String Quartet.
Other notable performances include Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at Adam Chamber Music Festival, Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2 and The Abiding Tides with the New Zealand String Quartet, Fragments from Wozzeck and Woglinde in Das Rheingold with the Auckland Philharmonia, Ross Harris’s The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village with pianist Piers Lane and in the orchestral version with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and Jane in Jenny McLeod’s opera Hohepa for NZ Opera and NZ Festival of the Arts.
Her major project, 21x21 Beneath the Trees, funded by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University involved commissioning 21 female composers from Aotearoa New Zealand to write a song each, which she premiered with pianist Jian Liu as part of the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in 2022 and released as a CD album on the Atoll label in 2023. All the songs have also been published by Waiteata Music Press for individual download or as the complete collection and the recordings are broadcast frequently on Radio NZ.
She is currently working towards the release of a recording of Jenny McLeod’s major song cycle Under Southern Skies which she premiered with Jian Liu at the Adam International Chamber Music Festival in 2024.
Head of Classical Voice at New Zealand School of Music, and Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Equity for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington for 2025, Dr Wollerman holds a Master of Music in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and completed her PhD in Music at Victoria University of Wellington.
Noted for her expressive interpretations of new works, she has premiered numerous compositions including Anthony Ritchie’s Stations: Symphony No. 4, which was nominated for MusicWeb International’s ‘2014 Recording of the Year’. Other album recordings include the song recital Between Darkness and Light with pianist Michael Houstoun, and Making Light of Time, songs by Ross Harris and Vincent O’Sullivan, with pianist Jian Liu and the New Zealand String Quartet.
Other notable performances include Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at Adam Chamber Music Festival, Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2 and The Abiding Tides with the New Zealand String Quartet, Fragments from Wozzeck and Woglinde in Das Rheingold with the Auckland Philharmonia, Ross Harris’s The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village with pianist Piers Lane and in the orchestral version with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and Jane in Jenny McLeod’s opera Hohepa for NZ Opera and NZ Festival of the Arts.
Her major project, 21x21 Beneath the Trees, funded by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University involved commissioning 21 female composers from Aotearoa New Zealand to write a song each, which she premiered with pianist Jian Liu as part of the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in 2022 and released as a CD album on the Atoll label in 2023. All the songs have also been published by Waiteata Music Press for individual download or as the complete collection and the recordings are broadcast frequently on Radio NZ.
She is currently working towards the release of a recording of Jenny McLeod’s major song cycle Under Southern Skies which she premiered with Jian Liu at the Adam International Chamber Music Festival in 2024.
Head of Classical Voice at New Zealand School of Music, and Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Equity for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington for 2025, Dr Wollerman holds a Master of Music in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and completed her PhD in Music at Victoria University of Wellington.
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