Jenny Bourke

Jenny is a music graduate of Queen’s University Belfast and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has been an Associated Artist with Northern Ireland Opera for the last three years and made her main stage debut as Filipeyvna in ‘Eugene Onegin’ in 2024. Her other operatic roles include Lucy Lockett ‘The Beggar’s Opera’, Mother Goose ‘The Rake’s Progress’, Sorceress ‘Dido and Aeneus’, Shepherd boy ‘Tosca’, Kate Pinkerton ‘Madame Butterfly’, Third Lady ‘Magic Flute’, Florence Pike ‘Albert Herring’, Queen of the Gypsies ‘Bohemian Girl’, Dorabella ‘Cosi fan tutti’, The Stepmother ‘The Juniper Tree’, Flora (cover) ‘La Traviata’, with Castleward Opera, RCS, Opera Fringe and Northern Ireland Opera.

Jenny is a recognised and established vocal tutor within Northern Ireland, recently qualifying as a Vocal Health First Aider. Her personal performances have taken her to New York, Beijing, Paris, Sweden, Norway and all over the UK and Ireland. Jenny regularly performs with the Ulster Consort, New Irish Arts and Sestina. In 2026 she is delighted to be joining the internationally-acclaimed period ensemble, Arcangelo in a recording and performance of Handel’s Saul in London and a European tour of St. Matthew’s Passion.