Jessica Salley vocalist | soprano | drummer | communications 

Current Projects

• Cowtown Country Club, 2018-2021 www.cowtowncountryclub.com

• Session work for Kansas City-based bands

• Kristin Hamilton Band, 2021

Recordings

• “Suite for the Passerby” Recorded for the Nelson Atkins Museum Sculpture Garden, 2018

• “Artifacts: The Music of Michael McGlynn” with The Kansas City Chorale, 2018

• “Cowtown Country Club” with Cowtown Country Club, 2018

• “All Night Vigil” (Rachmaninoff) with The Kansas City Chorale, 2015

Winner Best Choral Performance at the 2015 GRAMMY’S®

Concert Work and Soloist

• Regular soloist and staff soprano with Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Chorale, 2012-2019

• “Heaven” Soloist (Ellington) with Kansas City Jazz Orchestra at the Kauffman Center, 2019

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn), Kansas City Ballet & Symphony, 2015

• The Creation (Haydn), Village Choirs and Orchestra, Kansas City, MO, 2014

• Mass in C (Beethoven), Village Choirs and Orchestra, Prairie Village, KS, 2012

• Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn), UMKC Conservatory, 2011

• 1610 Vespers (Monteverdi), UMKC Conservatory, 2010

• Messiah (Handel), Oklahoma City Philharmonic members, 2008  

Stage Roles

• Abby and Babby in Tabby the Mad Rabby (Brian Padavic), Art/Sounds Series, 2014

• Rites of Being: An Evening of New Operas (multiple composers) at Paragraph Gallery, 2013

• The Dog in How the Camel Got Its Hump (Leah Sproul Pulatie), Conservatory Kid’s Club, 2013

• Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), UMKC Conservatory Opera Department, 2011

• Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Mozart), UMKC Conservatory Opera Department, 2011

• Sr. Constance in Dialogues des Carmelites (Poulenc), UMKC Conservatory Opera Department, 2010

• Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music (Sondheim), Light Opera Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, 2009

• Fiametta in The Gondoliers (Gilbert/Sullivan), Light Opera Oklahoma, 2009

• Lisette in La Rondine (Puccini), Oklahoma City (OKC) Opera & Music Theater Company, 2008

• Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music (Sondheim), OKC Opera & Music Theater Company, 2008

• Jen in jon & jen (Lippa), Oklahoma City Musical Theater Society, 2007

• Daisy in Hotel Casablanca (Pasatieri), OKC Opera & Music Theater Company, 2007

• Kate in Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert/Sullivan), OKC Opera & Music Theater Company, 2005

• Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), OKC Opera & Music Theater Company, 2005

Awards 

• NATS Artist Awards Missouri District Champion and Central Region Finalist, 2012

• Sigma Alpha Iota Graduate Performance Award, 1st Place, Vocal Division, 2009

• Metropolitan Opera National Council Midwest Region Finals, 3rd Place, 2009

• Stephen Dickson Memorial Award, Oklahoma City University, 1st Place, 2008

• Naftzger Young Artist Auditions, Wichita Symphony, Voice Division Finalist, 2008

Education  

• Master of Music, Vocal Performance, UMKC Conservatory, Degree Conferred: May 2012

• Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance, Oklahoma City University, Degree Conferred: August 2008