Upcoming events.
Masterclass with Joyce Didonato
Am *so* grateful that I’ve been invited to sing in this masterclass with Joyce Didonato in Oxford alongside some wonderful peers of mine. Pinching myself! Cannot wait!
New Chamber Opera: Purcell’s King Arthur
Returning to NCO for a cameo appearance as the Cold Genius in King Arthur!
Directed by the wonderful Luke Mitchell and featuring some fabulous singers.
New Chamber Opera: Purcell’s King Arthur
Returning to NCO for a cameo appearance as the Cold Genius in King Arthur!
Directed by the wonderful Luke Mitchell and featuring some fabulous singers.
Harmonious Siren: The Vocal Music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (Instruments of Time & Truth)
I’ll be stepping in as alto soloist for this wonderful program with Instruments of Time and Truth celebrating the stunning music of Chiara Cozzolani.
Tait Memorial Trust: 'Life's a Pleasure'
I’ll be singing at this program in celebration of John Rendall alongside some of of colleagues at the Tait Memorial Trust. Some lighter repertoire!
Instruments of Time and Truth: Alto Soloist in Handel's 'Messiah'
I will be back in Oxford to sing the alto solos in Handel’s Messiah with Instruments of Time and Truth directed by Edward Higginbottom. Exciting times!!
TAIT Foundation: Bravura in the Salon
Excited to be performing with some of my Australian and Aotearoa colleagues at TAIT Memorial Trust for this salon performance. I will be singing two Handel arias with star cellist, Jessica Abrahams, now studying at the Royal Academy of Music. We will be performing Orlando’s aria, ‘Fammi Combattere’ (Orlando) and Tolomeo’s heart-stopping aria, ‘Still Amare’ (Tolomeo). It promises to be an exciting evening, with some utterly wonderful artists.
Victoria Chorale: Spirit in Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ and alto soloist in Vivaldi’s ‘Magnificat’
I will be performing as the alto soloist in Vivaldi's glorious Magnificat and as the Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Very excited to be performing alongside some wonderful musicians here with Victoria Chorale, directed by Mario Dobernig.
RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
From the website of Genevieve Lacey:
‘Consort of the Moon imagines a new choral ritual, built from the echoes of an ancient melody.
It’s a new sound work that I’m creating with Erkki Veltheim and a brilliant team of collaborators. Consort of the Moon transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other, and to the wild earth.
The work layers live and hyper-real electroacoustic music to usher in a hypnotic, unifying ceremony. Audiences are welcome to participate, or simply sit and listen to a drifting, environmental soundscape that alters the collective sense of space and time.
This twilight gathering is inspired by the oldest known piece of notated song — an ode to Nikkal, Goddess of Orchards and Consort of the Moon. The music echoes the calls of owls, bats, and cicadas — blurring lines between human and animal realms in a nocturnal metamorphosis.
We’ll premiere this new work for Rising, June 10-14. We couldn’t be more excited to be celebrating its birth in a place and community that’s home and dear to us, after years of dreaming and working on it. Tickets are on sale here for the June season.’
RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
From the website of Genevieve Lacey:
‘Consort of the Moon imagines a new choral ritual, built from the echoes of an ancient melody.
It’s a new sound work that I’m creating with Erkki Veltheim and a brilliant team of collaborators. Consort of the Moon transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other, and to the wild earth.
The work layers live and hyper-real electroacoustic music to usher in a hypnotic, unifying ceremony. Audiences are welcome to participate, or simply sit and listen to a drifting, environmental soundscape that alters the collective sense of space and time.
This twilight gathering is inspired by the oldest known piece of notated song — an ode to Nikkal, Goddess of Orchards and Consort of the Moon. The music echoes the calls of owls, bats, and cicadas — blurring lines between human and animal realms in a nocturnal metamorphosis.
We’ll premiere this new work for Rising, June 10-14. We couldn’t be more excited to be celebrating its birth in a place and community that’s home and dear to us, after years of dreaming and working on it. Tickets are on sale here for the June season.’
RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
From the website of Genevieve Lacey:
‘Consort of the Moon imagines a new choral ritual, built from the echoes of an ancient melody.
It’s a new sound work that I’m creating with Erkki Veltheim and a brilliant team of collaborators. Consort of the Moon transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other, and to the wild earth.
The work layers live and hyper-real electroacoustic music to usher in a hypnotic, unifying ceremony. Audiences are welcome to participate, or simply sit and listen to a drifting, environmental soundscape that alters the collective sense of space and time.
This twilight gathering is inspired by the oldest known piece of notated song — an ode to Nikkal, Goddess of Orchards and Consort of the Moon. The music echoes the calls of owls, bats, and cicadas — blurring lines between human and animal realms in a nocturnal metamorphosis.
We’ll premiere this new work for Rising, June 10-14. We couldn’t be more excited to be celebrating its birth in a place and community that’s home and dear to us, after years of dreaming and working on it. Tickets are on sale here for the June season.’
RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne)
From the website of Genevieve Lacey:
‘Consort of the Moon imagines a new choral ritual, built from the echoes of an ancient melody.
It’s a new sound work that I’m creating with Erkki Veltheim and a brilliant team of collaborators. Consort of the Moon transforms a haunting, ancient melody into an elemental experience of communal listening, both to each other, and to the wild earth.
The work layers live and hyper-real electroacoustic music to usher in a hypnotic, unifying ceremony. Audiences are welcome to participate, or simply sit and listen to a drifting, environmental soundscape that alters the collective sense of space and time.
This twilight gathering is inspired by the oldest known piece of notated song — an ode to Nikkal, Goddess of Orchards and Consort of the Moon. The music echoes the calls of owls, bats, and cicadas — blurring lines between human and animal realms in a nocturnal metamorphosis.
We’ll premiere this new work for Rising, June 10-14. We couldn’t be more excited to be celebrating its birth in a place and community that’s home and dear to us, after years of dreaming and working on it. Tickets are on sale here for the June season.’
LIANG SHANBO in Richard Mills’ ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ (Singapore) (Copy)
I’ll be performing in the role of Liang Shanbo in Richard Mills’ new opera, ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ in this collaboration between Wild Rice Singapore and Victorian Opera. I’m very lucky to be working alongside some wonderful artists, including Cathy-Di Zhang (Zhu Yingtai) and Haotian Qi (Zhu/Master).
LIANG SHANBO in Richard Mills’ ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ (Singapore) (Copy)
I’ll be performing in the role of Liang Shanbo in Richard Mills’ new opera, ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ in this collaboration between Wild Rice Singapore and Victorian Opera. I’m very lucky to be working alongside some wonderful artists, including Cathy-Di Zhang (Zhu Yingtai) and Haotian Qi (Zhu/Master).
LIANG SHANBO in Richard Mills’ ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ (Singapore) (Copy)
I’ll be performing in the role of Liang Shanbo in Richard Mills’ new opera, ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ in this collaboration between Wild Rice Singapore and Victorian Opera. I’m very lucky to be working alongside some wonderful artists, including Cathy-Di Zhang (Zhu Yingtai) and Haotian Qi (Zhu/Master).
LIANG SHANBO in Richard Mills’ ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ (Singapore) (Copy)
I’ll be performing in the role of Liang Shanbo in Richard Mills’ new opera, ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ in this collaboration between Wild Rice Singapore and Victorian Opera. I’m very lucky to be working alongside some wonderful artists, including Cathy-Di Zhang (Zhu Yingtai) and Haotian Qi (Zhu/Master).
LIANG SHANBO in Richard Mills’ ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ (Singapore)
I’ll be performing in the role of Liang Shanbo in Richard Mills’ new opera, ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ in this collaboration between Wild Rice Singapore and Victorian Opera. I’m very lucky to be working alongside some wonderful artists, including Cathy-Di Zhang (Zhu Yingtai) and Haotian Qi (Zhu/Master).
Pergolesi 'Stabat Mater' & Vivaldi 'Nisi Dominus'
I’ll be joining with New Chamber Opera again with the wonderful direction of Luke Mitchell and alongside my friend, and exquisite soprano, Maryam Wocial. We will be performing Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus for solo Alto, and Pergolesi’s heart-rending Stabat Mater for Soprano and Alto.
New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’
New Chamber Opera presents German composer, Johann Pepusch’s masque, The Death of Dido (1715). I will be appearing as Aeneas in Pepusch’s Dido, a musical masque which hearkens back to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas from the end of the previous century. I’m lucky to be singing alongside my wonderful friend, Maryam Wocial as Dido, with my colleague and very clever harpsichordist, Luke Mitchell, and Michael Burden directing.
New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’
New Chamber Opera presents German composer, Johann Pepusch’s masque, The Death of Dido (1715). I will be appearing as Aeneas in Pepusch’s Dido, a musical masque which hearkens back to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas from the end of the previous century. I’m lucky to be singing alongside my wonderful friend, Maryam Wocial as Dido, with my colleague and very clever harpsichordist, Luke Mitchell, and Michael Burden directing.
Herald Sun Aria 2022 Finals
I’m very ✨very✨ excited to be competing as one of six finalists in the Herald Sun Aria this October 2nd! I’ll be singing two Handel arias, ‘Cara Sposa’ (Rinaldo) and ‘Vivi Tiranno’ (Rodelinda). Do pop along if you’re free for this Sunday matinee — all my fellow singers are fabulous up-and-coming artists from around Australia and Aotearoa/NZ. A real treat!
Instruments of Time & Truth: A Tale of Two Cities
A program pairing Handel’s Dixit Dominus (1707) with André Campra’s Requiem (1695). Directed by Edward Higginbottom with the Oxford Consort of Voices. I will be singing the alto solos in the Dixit Dominus and appearing as an haute-contre for the first time in a while for the Campra!
A Coffin, A Confession, and a Cautionary Tale: Three Pieces of Music Theatre
Three newer pieces of music theatre to be performed in the Antechapel at New College. I will be performing Samuel Hogarth’s 2003 piece for countertenor and piano, ‘The Evils of Tobacco’, alongside pianist Jamie Andrews. Hogarth’s piece, a humorous piece, is based on Chekhov’s ‘On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco’ (1886). A fabulous piece!
Instruments of Time & Truth: 'Divine Music! Songs and Odes in Praise of Music'
A program of Restoration period English music in praise of music, by John Blow, Purcell, and Croft, directed by Chris Bucknall. I will be performing as part of a consort of young Oxford-based singers.
New College Opera: Solo Recital
A solo recital with Luke Mitchell (harpsichord) with New College Opera! Program to include Caccini, Handel, Paraire Tōmoana, and Purcell. This event is live-streamed, so please tune in if you’re back home in Aotearoa or Australia! Scheduled to begin 9:15 pm AEST or 11:15 PM NZT. The YouTube livestream is preserved after the event, so check it out later on if you’re asleep by then!
UPDATE: we had issues with the livestream, so skip ahead to 16 mins 30 secs to watch the second half of the recital xoxo
Livestream: https://youtu.be/_-cZweTiw8c/
Program: https://www.newchamberopera.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Austin-Programme-HT.pdf
Bios: https://www.newchamberopera.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Updated-bio.pdf
Oxford Bach Soloists: BWV 213 'Laßt Uns Sorgen, Laßt Uns Wachen'
Due to unexpected covid things, I will be standing in to sing alto solos this Sunday 9th in Bach’s secular cantata, ‘Laßt Uns Sorgen, Laßt Uns Wachen’, with Oxford Bach Soloists. This cantata, written for the 11th birthday of Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony (yes, really), is about young Hercules — and *I* am going to be Hercules!
Instruments of Time & Truth: Messiah
Three performances of Handel’s Messiah with Instruments of Time & Truth between Madrid and Oxford’s University Church, directed by Edwards Higginbottom. I am singing as part of the choir with the Oxford Consort of Voices.
Madrid: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm on 14th, 15th December (Auditorio Nacional de Musica)
Oxford: 18th December (University Church)
Tickets (Madrid): https://www.auditorionacional.mcu.es/es/programacion/fundacion-bancaria-201cla-caixa201d-el-mesias-participativo-2
Tickets (Oxford): https://www.timeandtruth.co.uk/new-events/2021/12/18/handel-messiah-oxford
New College Opera: Solo Recital
A solo recital with Luke Mitchell (harpsichord), to include baroque repertoire such as Caccini and Handel arias, arias from Tenducci, alongside some music from Aotearoa! This recital will be live-streamed (beginning: 9:45 pm AEST/11:45 pm NZ). The livestream video will be saved at this link after the recital as well, so do check it out if you’re asleep back in Aus/NZ during the live performance!
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhbE29jOwQ
Program link: https://www.newchamberopera.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AH-NCO-Recital-Programme.pdf
Bio link: https://www.newchamberopera.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AH-Bio.pdf
Eglesfield Musical Society: Solo recital
Solo recital with Luke Mitchell (harpsichord) at Queen’s College Chapel. Program to include Caccini, Handel, Frescobaldi, and D’Anglebert. This one’s unticketed, so just pop along for a little bit of Sunday midday musick! xo