Sasha Cooke

Sasha Cooke is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Riverside, California, and raised in College Station, Texas, she studied at Rice University and the Juilliard School. She has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera and English National Opera, and appears widely in concert, particularly in the music of Mahler. She has given many first performances of new works and has won two Grammy Awards for opera recordings, John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Since 2022 she has been co-director of the Lehrer Vocal Institute at the Music Academy of the West.