Praised for her "assured projection" and "pure toned focus" by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, American mezzo-soprano Jamie Chelel is a versatile artist equally at home in solo, ensemble, and operatic repertoire. She performs with numerous ensembles including Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, Cappella Clausura, and The Boston Cecilia, and holds a Choral Fellowship at Old South Church in Boston, where she is currently serves as Children's Choir director. Jamie also also sings as a cantor at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (West End, Boston).
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Frequently engaged in performances and recordings of new works, Jamie's recent premieres include music by Bill Cutter, Laura Nevitt, William David Cooper, Gregory Brown, and indie band The Bog Berries. In the 2024-2025 season, Jamie participated in Artist Residencies at both Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she collaborated with student composers and singers to read, record, and perform new vocal works.
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Recent stage credits include Les Troyens à Carthage (Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra), Frederick Douglass (Odyssey Opera), Don Carlo (BYSO) La damnation de Faust (BYSO), La Bohème (Boston Opera Collaborative), and Don Giovanni (NEMPAC). In 2024, she debuted the role of Otto in The Good King, a micro-opera with music by Leo Sowerby (Old South). In 2023, she was awarded a Grant for Creative Individuals by the Mass Cultural Council.

Jamie is currently pursuing graduate studies at Harvard University, and holds a degree in Vocal Performance from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Her studies are focused on group dynamics and individual performance in vocal music settings. Outside of music, Jamie is a creative at MIT, splitting her time between designing hands-on educational experiences with the K-12 Maker Lab, and managing communications for the MIT Edgerton Center. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, playing guitar, and listening to Taylor Swift.

drop me a line at jcmezzo@gmail.com