Sasha Cooke

Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has sung a wide variety of operatic and concert works ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary. She has sung with most of the major American symphony orchestras and with several important ones beyond. Cooke was born in 1983 in Riverside, California, but grew up in College Station, Texas, where both her parents taught at Texas A&M University. Cooke started piano lessons at four and immediately gravitated toward music, joining a choir and taking up the viola. As a high school student, she was encouraged to consider a piano career. However, after gr...