American mezzo-soprano Jane Gilbert maintains a distinguished career of engagements with opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Florida Grand Opera and The Washington Opera, and she has appeared in concert with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. On the occasion of her Kennedy Center debut as Federica in Luisa Miller with The Washington Opera, Opera Magazine wrote, "Jane Gilbert's Federica reinforced the belief that she is en route to a major career." Writing of her performance as Suzuki in Florida Grand Opera's Madama Butterfly, Opera News described her as "superb… deep of tone and understated in her acting."

Jane Gilbert begins the 2008 - 2009 season with performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwartz. She joins St. Ignatius Loyola for performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 as part of Carnegie's Hall celebration of Leonard Bernstein and sings Grimgerde in Die Walküre with Los Angeles Opera.

Jane Gilbert returned to the Metropolitan Opera during the 2006-2007 season for performances in Suor Angelica. She returned to the Houston Symphony for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 conducted by Hans Graf, a work she also with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival under Franz Welser-Möst during the summer of 2007. She made her New York Philharmonic debut in Hindemith's Sancta Susanna under Riccardo Muti. She finished the season with performances of Mercedes in Carmen at the Veroza Company in Japan under Seiji Ozawa.

In the 2005-2006 season she appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Mahler's Symphony No. 3. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera for their summer tour in Japan as Grimgerde in Die Walküre, the role in which she made her Metropolitan Opera debut the previous season. Other highlights of Ms. Gilbert's engagements include Handel's Messiah with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2004-2005; her Chicago Symphony debut in 2003-2004 in the same piece, and her return engagement with the orchestra in Galina Ustvolskaya's Symphony No. 4. She has sung both Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Oregon Symphony, and she made her debut with Houston Symphony debut as soloist in Mozart's Requiem. Her opera engagements have included two world premieres: the role of Louise Almonester in Pontalba with New Orleans Opera, and the premiere of Ede Donath's Szulamit with Florida Grand Opera, both in 2003-2004. She concluded that season as Delilah in When Samson Met Delilah, a contemporary staging of Saint-Saëns' opera at the Appalachian Summer Festival.

Her orchestral engagements have included Schubert's Ständchen with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Saint Louis Symphony, Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the Seattle Symphony, and Vivaldi's Stabat Mater with the National Symphony Orchestra. She appeared with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as Marina in Boris Godunov under the baton of Andreas Delfs. She has also sung Messiah with Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall and the University Musical Society of Ann Arbor. She has sung Mozart's Requiem with the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, and Verdi's Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall and at Santiago's Teatro Municipal. Her festival appearances include Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and the Spoleto Festival USA.

In opera, her engagements have included Ottavia in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with Boston Baroque, an ensemble with which she has also performed the role of Cornelia in Giulio Cesare. With Florida Grand Opera she sang Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Olga in Eugene Onegin. She has performed the title role in Carmen with Central City Opera, Berkshire Opera and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony. In fall 2002 she made her debut with San Francisco Opera as Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos; her debut with Lyric Opera of Kansas City was as Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa, and she returned as the Fox in the world premiere of Henry Mollicone's Coyote Tales. Her European operatic debut was with Opéra de Nice as Cuniza in Verdi's Oberto.

Ms. Gilbert has appeared in several productions of the Canadian Opera Company, including two works of Berlioz: Béatrice in a new Robin Philips production of Béatrice et Bénédict, and concert performances of L'enfance du Christ. She has also appeared there as Herodias in Salome, Varvara in Katya Kabanova, Olga in Eugene Onegin, and Judith in Robert LePage's production of Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, which had performances in Toronto, New York, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Hong Kong.

Ms. Gilbert is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Sullivan Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, and the Shoshana Foundation. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she was named most outstanding undergraduate in her class.