Winner of the Linz Landestheater's 2018 Jugendensemble Preis Lyric Mezzo-soprano Jessica Eccleston is quickly establishing herself as an exciting and unique performer with great versatility.Her recent world premiere of the lead role in Christian Diendorfer's "Die Wand" at the Linz Landestheater, had her hailed as "Die Singstimme - herrvoragend Jessica Eccleston.." - OÖNachrichten. She has then gone onto sing Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito at the Linz Landestheater, with her voice described as "sensual, powerful and voluminous the mezzo of Jessica Eccleston as Sesto.." - Der Standard. She soon première's as Neris in Cherubini's Medee at the Linz Landestheater.Last Season, at the Linz Landestheater, she sang the roles of Maddalena in Rigoletto, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Marguerite in Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust and Olga in Eugene Onegin, also to great acclaim.She is equally sort after for recital, oratorio and concert work having performed at venues across the world such as St John Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Bridgewater Hall and many others. In Scotland, she was chosen to be a young concert artist with Live Music Now.She completed her degree in Music at the University of Cambridge, St Catharine's College where she held a choral scholarship and toured, recorded and broadcast around the world as far afield as China. She then went onto finish her Master's in Voice at the Royal Northern College of Music where she held the Annie Ridyard Scholarship and The Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she was also a scholarship holder and sang such roles as Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Nerone in Handel's Agrippina and Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.Jessica is also an avid accompanist and composer having conducted and recorded many of her own works. She enjoys going for country walks and baking too.