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The Women’s Club is excited to present a special evening of music and conversation in partnership with Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST).
MOST is a charity which has been promoting excellence in the music and opera sectors since 1982. Their organisation's mission is to promote excellence in music, the performing arts and related education sectors. They achieve this by managing two of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for young artists, the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition (ASC) and the ABC Young Performers Awards.
The ASC is Australia’s richest competition for young opera & classical singers, featuring a Scholarship named after the late Marianne Mathy-Frisdane, a distinguished operatic soprano who trained many well-known Australian singers.
The Competition itself is a rigorous three-stage process in which pre-eminent Adjudicators from the Australian and international singing and music fraternity hear entrants as they compete in the Heats, Semi-Finals and Finals, The Finals will be held on 19 September in the Concert Hall of The Concourse in Chatswood, and the contestants will perform accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra.
We are delighted to host a performance by two of the very talented Finalists from this year’s Australian Singing Competition, Molly Ryan and Georgia Cooper, accompanied by Bradley Gilchrist.
Winners and finalists in the Australian Singing Competition have access to unique opportunities via scholarships and prizes and have gone on to achieve remarkable successes, often becoming internationally profiled performers.
Program
2 x 20 minute ‘sets’ followed by a Q & A.
Repertoire - Georgia Cooper:
E Susanna non Vien!…. Dove Sono - Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart
The Tower Aria - Turn of the Screw, Benjamin Britten
The Soldier’s Bride - Rachmaninoff
Nun eilt herbai - Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Nicolai
Repertoire - Molly Ryan:
Come scoglio - Mozart
Air de Lia - Debussy
Verborgenheit - Wolf
Marietta’s lied - Korngold
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana - Catalani
Performers
Soprano Molly Ryan is completing her Masters of Opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
Scholarships include: the Greenberg Gurney Jensen Fund, Helen Myers Scholarship, Florence Mary Verga-Smith Award, Henderson Travellers Scholarship, and first prize of the 2023 Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Competition.
Molly’s roles include Theodora (Handel), Knusperhexe - Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Piacere - Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Handel), La Princesse - L’enfant et les sortilèges(Ravel), Belinda and Second Witch - Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), Susanna - Il Segretto di Susanna (Wolf-Ferarri) and Maguelonne - Cendrillon (Viardot).
In 2024, she debuts the world premieres of Mother - The Lullaby (Zhen) and (O’Donoghue), and Menarche Australian premiere of Mauxalinda - The Dragon of Wantley (Lampe).
Concert repertoire includes Messiah (Handel), Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Krönungsmesse (Mozart), Missa in Angustiis (Haydn), Missa Cellensis (Haydn), Magnificat (Vivaldi), Requiem Op. 48 (Faure).
Tasmanian Soprano, Georgia Cooper is a current student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Her recent roles include: Miss Jessel, Turn of the Screw (Hayes Theatre Company), Countess Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro (Prague Summer Nights Festival), Erste Dame, Die Zauberflöte (Trentino Music Festival), Fortuna, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Sydney Conservatorium of Music/NIDA).
Concert repertoire as soloist includes Ein deutches Requiem by Brahms (Illawarra Choral Society), The Creation by Haydn (East Sydney Chamber Orchestra) and Fauré’s Requiem (St Stephen’s Uniting Church).
Georgia is looking forward to premiering the roles of M.T.H.R in Oliver Cameron’s M.T.H.R and Communicant in Jessica O’Donoghue’s Menarche, directed by Lindy Hume in a joint production with Sydney Conservatorium of Music and NIDA.
Bradley Gilchrist completed a Bachelor of Music at the WA Conservatorium of Music, and post-graduate studies in accompaniment and piano performance in Sydney and Madrid.
He has numerous concerto performances to his name and has given solo and chamber music recitals across Australia and Internationally. Bradley has been repetiteur for many of Sydney’s chamber opera companies as well as being in demand as an accompanist and vocal coach for auditions, recitals, examinations and concert performances.
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