Mezzo-soprano Jessie Shulman is an accomplished SAG-AFTRA studio singer, concert soloist and chamber musician based in Los Angeles. Praised for her “warm, velvety sound”, Jessie has developed a career as a versatile and sought-after artist, gaining recognition for her expressive vocals and captivating performances. She currently sings as a frequent soloist and roster member of the Grammy® winning Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Opera Chorus.
Jessie's voice is woven into the soundtracks of numerous major motion pictures including Toy Story 5, Wicked: For Good, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Frozen II, The Lion King, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Last Jedi, and many more. Other recording projects include BGVs for Lady Gaga: Live at Coachella (2025) and Da Baby's performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, the opening credits of the hit TV show Outlander (Season 5: "The Skye Boat Song"), and the national DIRECTV commercial, “More For Your Thing: Signs”.
Upcoming performances include Mahler song selections with the Unbound Chamber Music Festival in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Most recently Jessie sang the alto solos in Mozart's Requiem and Fanny Mendelssohn's Oratorium nach Bildern der Bibel with the LA Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as Brahms and Schubert lieder with the South Bay Chamber Music Society. Recent live performances include The Oscars 2026 as part of the onstage LA Master Chorale choir, alongside Josh Groban and Conan O'Brien, and a small choral group at The Game Awards 2025, singing "Une vie à t'aimer" from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Other recent solo highlights include Martinů's Nový Špalíček with The New Hollywood String Quartet Summer of Bohemia Chamber Music Festival, and the release of film composer Cliff Eidelman’s Symphony No. 2 recording (as featured mezzo soloist).
Earlier credits include Mozart with Bach Collegium San Diego, alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with the LA Master Chorale, mezzo-soprano soloist in Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, live at the Microsoft Theater, and Ravel's Chansons madécasses as part of the Summer of Paris Chamber Music Festival with The New Hollywood String Quartet and Da Camera Society, her debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for their Baroque Conversations series, and mezzo-soprano soloist in Duruflé's Requiem with the LA Master Chorale, in which her rendition of ‘Pié Jesu’ was hailed as “amazing” (Seen and Heard International), and her voice "soared with melting ease.” (San Francisco Classical Voice).
As a roster member of the LA Master Chorale, Jessie has performed multiple times as alto soloist in Handel's Messiah under the direction of maestro Grant Gershon, where she "demonstrated her vocal versatility," (LA Excites). Jessie has also collaborated with the Fiato Quartet for performances of Respighi's Il Tramonto and Barber's Dover Beach, and reprised the Respighi for The Music Guild's 74th season. Jessie made her debut with Pacific Opera Project as the "sagaciously flirtatious" (LA Times) Madama La Rose in Rossini's La gazzetta, the second ever U.S. staging of the work. Jessie has sung under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, and many others. She has sung with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Other notable performances and projects include Third Noble Orphan in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (Cincinnati Opera), mezzo-soprano soloist in Berlioz’s Les nuits d'été (Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra), and alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 (San Bernardino Symphony).
Jessie holds a Master of Music degree in Voice from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she studied with Kenneth Shaw. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Opera Performance from California State University, Long Beach, where she studied with Tim MacDougall. Jessie is an alumna of the Aspen Opera Theater Center, OperaWorks Advanced Artist Program, and a former member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Music of the Baroque, and the Cincinnati Opera Chorus.
Born and raised in England, Jessie grew up in a musical family of classical string players and singers. She moved to California in 2000, and currently resides in Pasadena with her bass-baritone husband, their daughter, and their Blue Heeler.