Dr Jess Aszodi is an artist, researcher, educator and performer. Her singing is critically acclaimed in performances on stages across the world, crossing between classical and experimental music. Jess has twice been nominated for the Greenroom Awards as ‘best female operatic performer’ - in both the leading and supporting categories. She was awarded "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, ICE, Pinchgut Opera, the Tirolean Symphony Orchestra, Victorian Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, and the San Diego and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.

Her Festival appearances include the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Festivals, Darmstadt, Aldeburgh, Tectonics, Tanglewood, Klangspuren, and Beethoven Festwoche. Jess completed a Doctorate of Music in Artistic Research 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. Her recent writing focuses on the singing body in projects of mourning, love and kin-making.