Jasmine Sahd, is a versatile performer at home in opera, musical theatre, new music, and recording work. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Eastern New Mexico University and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she also completed a Professional Studies Certificate focused on new works by living composers. A dedicated advocate for new music, Jasmine has performed composer Jake Heggie’s one-woman opera At the Statue of Venus and maintains an ongoing collaboration with composer Natasha Frank, BMI Composer Award winner and two-time BAFTA scholar, having debuted Frank’s piece “The Death of Ophelia” as part of SFCM’s Future is Female concert series, celebrating composers who are women and of marginalized genders.

Recent stage work includes Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show with Albuquerque Little Theater, Miriam in The Prince of Egypt and covering Clara in The Light in the Piazza with Musical Theatre Southwest, plus chorus roles in Opera Southwest’s Dolores and Mosè in Egitto. Other credits include La Princesse in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, La Fortuna and Pallade in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea with SFCM, Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, and productions of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast with Way Way Off Broadway. Her roots go back to Caroline Neville in Titanic! The Musical and Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee with ENMU. She’s even taken the stage with School of Rock Albuquerque’s Instructor Band, covering songs by Coheed and Cambria, Paramore, and Hail the Sun. For Jasmine, the best part of performing is the variety of people she meets and works with