The Willoughby Symphony Choir, one of Australia’s finest community choirs, was formed in 1973 and joined with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in the same year to become the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Since its inception, the Choir has always been sponsored by the Willoughby City Council. The Choir performs concerts with the Orchestra but…
Category: Guest Artists
Soonki Park – Bass
Soonki PARK, who was born in 1983 in South Korea, is a baritone. He studied Bechelor of music performance voice major at the National University of Busan. He worked for Kim-hae professional city chorus for 4 years then, he came to Australia to study Opera at the University of Sydney. He performed opera ‘La Traviata’,…
Damian Arnold – Tenor
Damian has just completed his Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, where he was the recipient of the Linda Kingsbury Jeffery Scholarship for Voice. His performance experience includes Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart in Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov, Hugo in Offenbach’s Love By Lanternlight, The Tenor Lover in Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Edward in Trial by Jury. He…
Jermaine Chau – Mezzo Soprano
Jermaine Chau, mezzo soprano a recent graduate of the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Summer School in Brisbane, studied opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where she took on the role as a sassy aunt Fidalma in Cimarosa’s comic opera Il Segreto Matrimonio. In 2014, she has taken the lead role in Menotti’s Old Maid…
Caroline King – Soprano
Caroline is currently entering her 3rd year of classical voice performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of her Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Maree Ryan, chair of Vocal Studies and Opera at. She is the winner of (2013) The Helen Myers Scholarship (Sydney Conservatorium of Music). In July 2014, she…
Hong Zhi Gao
Hong Zhi (David) Gao graduated from Harbin Normal University Music College, China, and is currently completing a Master of Music (Conducting) at Sydney Excelsia College under Dr. Sadaharu Muramatsu. Hong Zhi Gao has conducted the Wesley Institute Choir (now Excelsia College Choir) and Tian Guo Yue Tuan (Celestial) Concert band. He worked as assistant conductor…
