About Jazimina
Hailed as “brilliant” by the Berliner Morgenpost and “clearly a singer to watch” by The New York Times, Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil is a mezzo-soprano, creative producer, director, writer, actor, and wild blueberry picker rooted in the beautiful and artistically fertile Monadnock region of New Hampshire.
Jazimina has conceived, directed, and performed in a number of interdisciplinary works which explore the intersection of music, storytelling, and the natural world: Danika the Rose, an interweaving of Dvorak’s sublime Moravian Duets with an original eco-fairytale written by Jazimina in collaboration with master storyteller Odds Bodkin, and an orchestral version of this project, Love Like Water, produced in collaboration with conductor Eric Jacobsen and composer Lembit Beecher. In collaboration with the Harris Center for Conservation Education and Electric Earth Concerts, Jazimina created two site-specific musical hikes: The Singing Stream, which sets Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin alongside a real-life mill stream, and In Fine Feather, which invites walkers into a world of music and poetry inspired by birdsong, accompanied by the sights and sounds of the birds themselves. She has also collaborated with the DreamYard Project and Brooklyn Art Song Society to create Frozen Tears, a concert of artwork and spoken word inspired by the alienation in Schubert’s Winterreise as it resonates with young artivists from the South Bronx. Projects currently in development are an immersive theatrical retelling of Guantanamo survivor Mansoor Adayfi’s heartrending, humorous, and hope-filled stories, as well as a site-specific performance using live music and storytelling to make audible Dr. Suzanne Simard’s groundbreaking research on how forests function as complex, caring communities.
Jazimina is a company member of the award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop, with whom she regularly performs and devises immersive, experimental, and community-based works.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music, Jazimina spent glorious summers singing and studying at Marlboro Music, the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia, the Aspen Music Festival, SongFest and the Schubert Institute. Highlights from her recent performances include Mason Bates' Passage for mezzo-soprano, electronics, and orchestra conducted by Eric Jacobsen and the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the role of the Subdominant Chord in Steven Stucky's opera The Classical Style with the Aspen Music Festival, the role of Ruby in a workshop of Jennifer Higdon’s opera Cold Mountain with Opera Philadelphia, the alto solo in Mahler's Second Symphony at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony, concerts of John Harbison's music with the Pro Arte Quartet, chamber music collaborations with the Aureole Trio, a Mozart Requiem with the Albany Symphony, and a solo recital at the Curt Sachs Saal in the Berlin Philharmonic. Jazimina is endlessly grateful to have landed in such a fertile artistic ecosystem, and is honored to sing frequently with her dear friends at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Around Hear, Ashuelot Concerts, the Caroga Arts Collective, Electric Earth Concerts, and Music on Norway Pond, among many others.
