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…
2015-02 Season 2 – Rebels with a Cause
Sat, 20th Jun 2015 Sun, 21st Jun 2015 Our second concert for this year starts with farce: the overture to Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (the Bat) is a brilliant favourite with audiences everywhere. Weber’s Clarinet Concertino is a lovely example of Weber’s virtuosic but soulful clarinet writing and will be performed by our own Gigie…
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…
Shirrley Mahableshwarwalla
“Then in 1975 Shirrley Mahableshwarwalla became secretary, a lady recently from India, who was very intrigued with the orchestra when she arrived. She remained the secretary until 1997, an extraordinary period of devotion to a task, often very time consuming, that has merited our life long thanks.” So wrote Geoff Widmer in “A Thirty Year…
Strathfield Symphony Orchestra 