UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Marquis Who's Who honors Jane Marsh, an internationally acclaimed spinto dramatic soprano and educator. Ms. Marsh made history as the first singer in history to win the gold medal at Moscow's legendary International Tchaikovsky Competition and continues to shape the future of vocal performance through her work as a performer, educator, lecturer, master class instructor, author and mistress of ceremonies.

As a lecturer at the San Francisco State University and as an adjunct professor at Hunter College, Ms. Marsh's laurels have been notable. Her contributions, as artistic advisor and program consultant to the Metropolitan Opera Guild, have further brought an array of significant and diverse educational programs to Lincoln Center. Ms. Marsh brings decades of world-stage experience to aspiring performers and also champions the art of song repertoire in an era when opera productions face economic challenges.

About Ms. Marsh

Ms. Marsh is known for her groundbreaking career achievements and her passion for supporting the next generation of performers. Her current work includes a focus on universal education-performance programs for both artists and audiences worldwide. Through her multifaceted career, in global performances of operas, concerts and recitals, Ms. Marsh has developed a unique approach to vocal delivery that emphasizes the connection between performer and audience, believing that artists must tap into their own individual creative talents and personal power to truly inspire others as well as themselves. This approach has long-term potential in integrating a career attitude with the tools needed to build a professional career foundation.

Holding a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory, Ms. Marsh's international career was majorly and universally launched with her historic gold medal win in Moscow. Her success opened the doors to worldwide appearances at most of the world's major performing venues, with notifications appearing in most of the globe's major magazine and news journals, the likes of Time and Life Magazines. Honored invitations from President Lyndon Johnson to perform at the White House resulted as well. Ms. Marsh's repertoire includes many leading roles from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Handel and the Bel Canto tradition, among world premieres of contemporary composers, as well as the likes of Ned Rorem, Carl Orff and Alberto Ginastera.

A Notable Figure in Vocal Performance Pedagogy

Beyond performing, Ms. Marsh has established herself as a respected authority in vocal performance pedagogy. For more than 10 years, she has been the artistic advisor and program consultant to the diverse projects of the Metropolitan Opera Guild's educational programs at New York's Lincoln Center. She also presents lectures, master classes, courses and showcases worldwide on a wide array of repertoire, including Russian, Bel Canto, Wagner, Baroque, the Italian and French composers, Johann and Richard Strauss, Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Schubert, and numerous contemporary composers. She has performed as both singer and mistress of ceremonies on international and U.S. radio and television, and also presents annually an opera showcase program at the historically renowned Temple Emanuel in New York.

Ms. Marsh is particularly dedicated to promoting song repertoire, especially as recitals become more widely performed. She uses her extensive performance experience across Europe and the U.S. to help singers master song literature, styles, and languages. Outstanding highlights of her career in the art song medium include Advent and Christmas recital broadcasts at Vienna's Musikverein Saal and Konzertsaal, which were praised for their captivating vocal performances and inventively unique programming. Her published works include the recital anthology "Spirit Be Joyful" from Oxford University Press and the song recording "Gifts and Treasures," available on Apple iTunes.

Ms. Marsh can otherwise be found on notable historic television: Hollywood Palace, Red Skelton Show, Bell Telephone Hour, the Johnny Carson Show, the Mike Douglas Show, the Merv Griffin Show, and the Art Buchwald Show. The talk show television medium is a great passion and interest of Ms. Marsh, even today. One can also find her on the recording labels of Melodia, Stil, Atlantic, Opera D'Oro, Orfeus, ORF, Rhapsody, Deutsche Grammaphon, VAI Historical Recordings, BBC Radio & Television, RAI Italian Radio & Television, VARA Netherlands, Bayerischer RUNDFUNK Germany, and her personal website, www.janemarsh.com.

A Deep Love for Vocal Arts

Ms. Marsh has been recognized with a number of awards, including the New York Handel Medaille for outstanding contributions to the music world and a Presidential Honor Award of Distinction from the White House, the Time Life Merit Award, Achievement Award from US World Report, keys to the cities of New York and San Francisco, Mademoiselle Magazine Woman of the Year, and the National 4-H Merit Award from the National 4-H Club of America.

Ms. Marsh hails from a unique background as a competitive horsewoman, a passion that was noted alongside her musical accomplishments in both Time and Life magazine, as well as the US World Report.

Ms. Marsh credits her ongoing success to understanding goal orientation, performance preparation, her original ideas and her deep love for her work, and a genuine desire to positively impact others and make a difference. Her ongoing international master classes and television projects particularly echo her goal orientation and professional love, and they keep her connected with both young singers and her global audience, cementing her place of importance in the world of the vocal arts.

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