Versatile soprano Judith Dodsworth is equally at home in opera, chamber music, oratorio and concert, in repertoire ranging from baroque to experimental. Following studies in Canberra, London, Vienna and Melbourne, she has established a reputation as one of Australia’s leading exponents of contemporary classical vocal music.
Her operatic roles have included Carmen (OzOpera), Greta in Metamorphosis (Victorian Opera), Sophie in From a Black Sky, and lead roles in Rameau’s Pygmalion (Stopera), Opiume (Singapore and Hong Kong Festivals), Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (with Syzygy Ensemble) and A Drone Opera (Experimenta), recently released as a short film and installation. She sang the role of Clara in Gordon Kerry’s Midnight Son for Victorian Opera with less than twenty-four hours’ notice, and did the same as the Secretary in Menotti’s The Consul.
She was a featured soloist in the premiere of Cat Hope’s critically acclaimed new opera Speechless for the 2019 Perth Festival. She has participated in numerous workshops, recordings and premiere performances of works by established and emerging Australian and international composers, and is passionate about cross-disciplinary art. She is a principal cantor and soloist at St Patrick’s Cathedral and coordinator of classical voice at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University.
She is delighted to be on board the Homophonic juggernaut again this year, following performances of Moya Henderson’s Stubble in 2018 and Thomas Adès’ Life Story in 2019.
As an active composer, the work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984) engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and its production, the erotics of performance, the musical vocabulary of popular music, and noise.
Laura Tanata completed her Masters of Music Performance at the Australian National University School of Music in 2007, under the tuition of harpist Alice Giles. Laura has been a member of the Seven Harp Ensemble (SHE) since the early 2000s when it was previously known as the Kioloa Harp Ensemble.
Clarinet maverick, Ed Ferris is rapidly creating a name for himself as an exciting performer, teacher and conductor of young ensembles in Australia.
Allison Wright is a Melbourne based freelance trumpet player, composer, sound artist, producer, collaborator and educator. Since finishing her performance studies with David Elton (SSO) & Tristram Williams (soloist) at the Australian National Academy of Music, Allison has enjoyed a versatile career as a sought after orchestral and studio trumpet player, regularly performing with prominent arts organisations and initiative including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria & Opera Australia.
Nirmali Fenn is a Sri Lankan-born Australian composer. She received her initial music education in Australia from the universities of New South Wales and Melbourne, graduating with high distinction. With the support of a prestigious Clarendon Fund Scholarship, she later read music at Oxford University, U.K. She has worked on the faculties of the University of Hong Kong, New York University, University of New South Wales and currently works at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
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