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On Tuesday the 28th November I was fortunate enough to sing at the Sydney Opera House in The Australian Singing Competition's Mathy Final. The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra along with Brian Castles-Onion were wonderful to work with and made it such a magical experience. With practices in the Opera Studio and at Fox Studios at the Trackdown Theatre, we all had nothing but fun for those few days in Sydney. Congratulations to the Other finalists; Michael Lampard, and Nicol Car and to Sitiveni Talei for winning the Marianne Mathy Scholarship.
We were all lucky enough to go home with several prizes by the end of the competiton. It is so rare that a singing competition for young singers has this much support to offer!
I ended up with 10 prizes;
Guildhall School of Music & Drama Award (1yr in London)
Phoebe Patrick Award ($3,000)
Nell Pascall Award ($3,000)
Universal Music Australia Prize ($3,000 worth of cds & dvds)
Goethe-Institut Prize (1 term in Sydney)
Running Bare Prize (worth $1,000)
Haas Award ($500)
Opera Australia Prize (observation of opera rehearsals in Syd & Melb)
West Australian Symphony Orchestra Award (2x tickets)
Filipa Ferreira Prize ($100)
Thankyou to all the sponsors and supporters of this wondeeful competiton. I hope to start making arrangements very soon.
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On September 7th it was announced that I am one of 4 finalists in the running for the Marianne Mathy Scholarship in the Australian Singing Competition. The finals will be held on October the 28th at the Sydney Opera House with the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Brian Castles-Onion. I am very excited to have gotten this far and I hope to do both Western Australia and South Australia proud on the finals night. My collegue, Sitiveni Talei (Baritone), WA, is also a finalist.
I will be singing Strauss' Morgen and Dvorak's Rusalka's Song to the Moon on the night.
Wish me luck!!
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The Opera Foundation Australia, Opera Awards and Scholarships 2008 have just informed me that I have been selected to compete in the finals of both the Italian Opera Scholarship and the New York Study Scholarship. I am so excited and feel very grateful to be selected from a very talented pool of young Australian singers. I just hope to perform my best for the judges and learn as much as I can from this experience and it's finalists!! :)[ view entry ] ( 473 views ) | related link
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Thankyou to The Coffe Club, Channel 9, Home Start Finance and all the sponsors of the Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards for their support and encouragement in awarding me the winner of the 2008 The Coffee Club Arts Award.Congratulations to all the other finalists and semi-finalists in all the catagories for showing South Australia what amazing work you've been doing!!
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I'm Back!!! The study trip to Italy was amazing!! I studied at the Instituto Italiano in Florence and completed 8 weeks of Italian language study. I saw as many performances as I could, including Madama Butterfly. More than anything, I loved the culture shock!! Walking to school past Il Duomo everyday and having to converse in Italian 24/7 was such a valuable and exciting experience. The art, the architecture and the history was just so interesting and it became clear to me that the more I knew, the more I realised there was to discover. I made some wonderful friends and I know that all the language and culture skills, the places I went to and the art I saw will all contribute enormously to my music making.I hope to continue studying this language and be come as fluent as I possibly can in the following years.
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