A recent graduate of the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) with a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance, Jasmine Muhammadbegan developing her soprano repertoire while attending the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, where she graduated with the Most Outstanding Vocalist award. Her musical education experiences have included Master Classes with renowned opera singers Denyce Graves, Darryl Taylor, Ashley Putnam, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell and Hilda Harris and actor, playwright, and composer Hershey Felder. In 2007, Jasmine traveled to Urbania, Italy to attend the Italian Operatic Experience where she performed in Puccini’s La Bohème and opera scenes.
Jasmine Muhammad -- Signore, ascolta - Puccini (from Turandot)
Jasmine Muhammad - In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Jasmine Muhammad sings "I am Moses" from "Harriet Tubman" opera-in-progess
An excerpt from Nkeiru Okoye's folk opera-in-progress "Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom." The opera will tell the story of the Underground Railroad engineer (soprano Jasmine Muhammad in this excerpt) as she grows from a girl born in slavery into the woman who would lead dozens of slaves to freedom in the North.
Conductor: Eli Spindel
violin: Jennifer Axelson / violin II: Molly Fletcher
viola: Brian Thompson / cello: Alice Hamlet
contrabass: Morton Cahn / piano: Mila Henry
Stage director: Beth Greenberg
Produced by American Opera Projects
Opera Grows In Brooklyn: Opera of Color
Sunday, June 12 - 7:00 p.m.
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
Jasmine Muhammad sings "I am Harriet Tubman" from opera
Jasmine Muhammad -- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
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