Jillian Tate is a soprano currently pursuing her Master of Musical Arts degree at Yale University under the tutelage of Gerald Martin Moore. Recently she appeared in Yale Opera Scenes as Peter in Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day, Soeur Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. This spring she was featured as Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with Yale Opera. Last summer she attended the prestigious Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where she studied under leading industry professionals.

She has appeared as a soloist with Yale Philharmonia, performing the New England premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s JFK: The Last Speech in November 2023. Additionally, she was honored to be a winner in the Boston District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in December 2023.

As a concert artist, she has performed the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah with the Waterbury Symphony, and sang the soprano solos in The Ballad of the Brown King by Margaret Bonds with the Greater New Haven Chorus. Prior to her attending Yale, Jillian performed with Opera Carolina as a soloist in Douglas Tappin’s I Dream, and in the chorus of Verdi’s Aida. She earned her Bachelor of Music in 2021 from the University of Maryland where she studied with mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler. During her time at the University of Maryland, Jillian was a featured soloist at the Kennedy Center’s Reach Opening Festival as an alumna of the Washington National Opera Institute.