Jackson Emmett Schroeder studied at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music before earning his Master of Music at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Schroeder was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jackson has performed as Pirelli in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at Lowell House Opera at Harvard University, was featured as a soloist at Boston Symphony Hall in Adolphus Hailstork’s Crispus Attucks, and earned his first lead role in Montreal, Quebec, as the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel. He completed an intensive summer program at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden, Austria, deeply influencing his thesis-level recital at McGill.

Schroeder has performed with Sarasota Opera, covering the roles of Peppe in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Jackson currently studies with Kevin Short and performs with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus.