Jade graduated in 2020 with First Class honours from the Royal Irish Academy of Music with a Bachelor of Music Performance studying with Mary Brennan and Dearbhla Collins. There she sang her first major role in ‘Banished,’ a contemporary work by Stephen McNeff which was performed in Kilmainham Goal Museum. In 2021 Jade graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under the tutelage of Yvonne Kenny with Masters in Music Performance of class distinction with scholarship.
In 2020 Jade was a winner of the Flax Trust Music bursary in Belfast. Jade also participated in Wexford Festival Opera’s Academy programme where she received coaching and masterclasses from world-renowned musicians such as: Juan Diego Flores, Ernesto Palacio, Dmitry Vdovin, Ermonela Jaho. With Wexford Festival Opera she sang the role of ‘Alice’ in Verdi’s Falstaff.
In 2021 Jade was the winner of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition Bursary and also the Danone Ireland Young Outstanding Female Artist Award. In 2022 Jade was the winner of the ESB Feis Ceoil Dramatic Cup.
In 2021 Jade participated in the Rossini Opera Festival Academy in Pesaro, Italy. There she sang the role of Modestina in ‘il Viaggio a Reims’ by Rossini.
in 2021 Jade sang again in Wexford Festival opera’s academy programme. There she sang Giulietta in Bellini’s ‘I Capuleti e I Montecchi.’
Jade’s other roles include: Iris, Semele by Handel (Opera Collective Ireland), Ariele, La Tempesta, Fromental Halevy (Wexford Festival Opera). Nora, Old Ghost’s, Evangelia Rigaki (Irish National Opera), Nobel Orphan, Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss (Irish National Opera). Despina (Cover), Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart (Irish National Opera.
Jade’s most recent success which received a five star review from The Irish Times and Best Performance of the Year from Operawire for her role as Rosetta in Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara with Wexford Festival Opera 2023. This opera was described as the highlight of the festival and received remarkable reviews which can be read below:
‘an aptitude for bravura that is quite impressive.’
“…Ms. Jade was later able to command a commendable amount of steel and darkness as her fate took a punishing turn. Her character has the most complex journey of the entire piece, from a dependent, innocent daughter to traumatized victim of sexual abuse. Vocally and dramatically, Ms. Phoenix dazzled.”
-Opera Today
“The young soprano giving an amazing performance through some challenging scenes, singing absolutely superbly. The scene where she took to the front of the stage to offer up a song of prayer was a revelation, winning over the audience as she lived through the trauma and post-trauma brilliantly”
-Opera Journal.
'“The soprano Jade Phoenix as the daughter Rosetta, who transforms from innocent child into violated young woman – is superb….The audience roars its approval as the curtain falls.”
Five Star Review.
-The Irish Times.
“Jade Phoenix . . . hit the high notes and sparkled in her portrayal of the magician ariele.’
-IRISH EXAMINER