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TAIT Foundation: Bravura in the Salon
Nov
30

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.

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RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
June
14

RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)

  • Wellington Parade East Melbourne, VIC, 3002 Australia (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.’

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RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
June
13

RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)

  • Wellington Parade East Melbourne, VIC, 3002 Australia (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.’

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RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)
June
12

RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne) (Copy)

  • Wellington Parade East Melbourne, VIC, 3002 Australia (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.’

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RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne)
June
10

RISING: Consort of the Moon by Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne)

  • Wellington Parade East Melbourne, VIC, 3002 Australia (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.’

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New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’
Jan
28

New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’

  • New College Chapel, Holywell Street Oxford, England, OX1 3BN United Kingdom (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’
Jan
27

New College Opera: Pepusch's ‘The Death of Dido’

  • New College Chapel, Holywell Street Oxford, England, OX1 3BN United Kingdom (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Herald Sun Aria 2022 Finals
Oct
2

Herald Sun Aria 2022 Finals

  • Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

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Instruments of Time & Truth: A Tale of Two Cities
May
27

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!

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A Coffin, A Confession, and a Cautionary Tale: Three Pieces of Music Theatre
Mar
10

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!

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New College Opera: Solo Recital
Jan
28
to 25 Aug

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

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Oxford Bach Soloists: BWV 213 'Laßt Uns Sorgen, Laßt Uns Wachen'
Jan
9

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!

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Instruments of Time & Truth: Messiah
Dec
14
to 18 Dec

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

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New College Opera: Solo Recital
Nov
12

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

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