Jess Aszodi is a shape-shifter. An artist, researcher, educator, and performer, crossing between classical, experimental music, and improvisation where she creates bespoke techniques and concepts from project to project. Jess holds a Doctorate of Music at Griffith University, and a Masters in Fine Arts at University of California. Her thesis and subsequent publications have focused ways of embodying knowledge with and through the voice. Jess has twice been nominated for the Australian Greenroom Awards as ‘best female operatic performer’ - in both the leading and supporting categories. And was awarded the 2019 Performance of the Year by the Australian Art Music Awards. She has performed as a soloist with opera houses and ensembles around the world including the London Sinfonietta, Wiener Volksoper, Ensemble Moderne, Nederlands Reisoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, Pinchgut Opera, Victorian Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, and the San Diego and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.