Sasha Cooke (born ) is an American

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

. Cooke was born in

Riverside, California Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. As of the 2020 census, the city has a population of 314,998. It is the most populous city in th ...

, and grew up in

College Station, Texas College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States, situated in East-Central Texas in the Brazos Valley, towards the eastern edge of the region known as the Texas Triangle. It is northwest of Houston and east-northeast of Austin, ...

, where her parents are professors of Russian at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

. She earned a bachelor's degree from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...

and trained at the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

in New York. Cooke attended the Music Academy of the West in 2002. Cooke won best opera recording for '' Doctor Atomic'' at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, 2011, and again for '' The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs'' at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, 2018. In 2022, she played Thirza in Houston Grand Opera's staging of ''The Wreckers'' by Ethel Smyth.

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Sasha Cooke at Operabase
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cooke, Sasha Living people Rice University alumni Juilliard School alumni American operatic mezzo-sopranos 21st-century American women opera singers People from Riverside, California People from College Station, Texas Year of birth missing (living people) Music Academy of the West alumni Singers from California Classical musicians from California Singers from Texas Classical musicians from Texas Grammy Award winners 1980s births