Rebecca Cassidy, Brisbane

Rebecca Cassidy is a Soprano who originally hails from

Townsville, North QLD.

Rebecca completed her Bachelor of Music (Advanced

Performance) at the QLD Conservatorium of Music and has

performed the roles of Merab from Handel’s Saul, Noémie from

Massenet’s Cendrillon, as well as the title role of Puccini’s Suor

Angelica and Ann Trulove from Stravinky’s The Rake’s

Progress. In addition to these operatic roles Rebecca has sung

with many notable ensembles in concert, oratorio and

symphonic repertoire including singing the Soprano Solos in

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Benjamin Britten’s War

Requiem.

In 2012 Rebecca was a member of Opera Queensland’s Developing Artist Program. Rebecca has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and bursaries including the Encouragement Award from the Dame Joan Sutherland Aria Competition (2010), 2nd Prize in the Australian Concerto Competition (2010), The Wagner Prize (2010), and the Long Tan Bursary for Academic Excellence.

She has recently won the Operatic Aria section of the MTAQ Queensland Singing Competition and the Alton Budd Memorial Award. Rebecca will also be performing in Peter Grimes and Don Giovanni for Opera QLD and performing the role of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus in 2019.

Australian Concerto & Vocal Competition info@acvc.com.au

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2.00pm

Sunday 22 July 2018

Townsville Grammar School Music Centre Adjudicator Cheryl Barker AO

Thank you to our sponsors for the Open Vocal Section

Gala Vocal Concert

PROGRAM

Kate Amos, Melbourne

‘Quando m’en vo’ (Musetta’s Waltz) from “La Boheme” Giacomo Puccini

Recit.’Guinse alfin il momento’ Aria - ‘Deh vieni, non tardar’ from “Le Nozze di Figaro” W A Mozart

Scena ed Aria ‘E strano! E’ strano!.....Sempre libera’ (Violetta’s Aria) from “La Traviata” G Verdi

‘Je veux vivre’ from “Romeo et Juliette” Charles Gounod

Naomi Flatman, Brisbane

‘Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio’ from “I Capuletti e I Montecchi” Vincenzo Bellini

‘Abbrucio, avvampo e fremo’ from “Rinaldo” George Frederic Handel

‘Qui m’aurait dit la place’ (Charlotte’s Aria) from “Werther” Jules Massenet

Recit ‘Ah, scostati,’ Aria ‘Smanie implacabili’ from “Cosi fan tutti” W A Mozart

INTERVAL

Rebecca Cassidy, Brisbane

‘Dich, teure Halle’ from “Tannhauser” Richard Wagner

‘Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante’ from “Carmen” Georges Bizet

‘Come scoglio’ from “Cosi fan tutti” W A Mozart

‘Senza mamma’ from “Suor Angelica” Giacomo Puccini

Thanks to official accompanist Maryleigh Hand

Official Adjudicator - Cheryl Barker AO

Adjudication and Prize Presentation

Prizes sponsored by Ishiyama Foundation

1st $1500 ; 2nd $1000; 3rd $500

*1st place winner will also receive an invitation to perform as a guest soloist with the Barrier Reef Orchestra

Special Awards

Norton Challenor Award for Most Promising Vocalist $250

and Perpetual Trophy sponsored by Mary Paola

Audience Choice Award $300

sponsored by Susan Grinsell Singing Studio

Kate Amos, Melbourne

Melbourne-born lyric coloratura soprano, Kate holds a BMus (Perf) with Honours, Dip. Lang (Italian) and Masters of Music

(Opera Performance) from the University of Melbourne.

In 2014 she was selected to join the Young Artist Program with

the Victorian Opera performing leading and supporting roles.

In 2016, Kate performed the title role in Cendrillon by Massenet, covered soprano Emma Mathews as Orlando/Selena in world-premiere baroque pastiche opera Voyage to the Moon and study-covered Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor with Victorian

Opera sung by Jessica Pratt.

In 2017 was invited to undertake a scholarship to attend the “Bel Canto Festival” in Montisi, Italy sponsored by Jessica Pratt. Engagements included Brahms Requiem debut (St. Martin-in-the-Fields) London, Rosina in The Barber of

Seville (Mediterranean Opera Festival) in Sicily, Italy.

Numerous awards consist of the Melbourne Male Welsh Choir Singer of the Year; 2016-2017, Sleath Lowrey scholarship, Lisa Gasteen National Opera scholarship; AME ‘Opera Scholar of the Year’ joint-winner 2011. Royal Overseas-League Bursary and Italian Merenda Scholarship. Kate travelled on

scholarship to Jesi, Italy, winning the Italian Acclaim study-award in conjunction with Teatro Pergolesi.

In 2018 is delighted to be making her principal artist debut with Opera Australia.

Naomi Flatman, Brisbane

Swiss born Mezzo-Soprano Naomi Flatman completed her Postgraduate studies in Opera (2018), as well as her Bachelor of Music in Advanced Performance (2016), both at the Queensland

Conservatorium Griffith University under Mr Gregory Massingham.

Her stage credits include Cherubino in the Marriage of Figaro Mozart, with the Lyric Opera Studio in Weimar, Germany (2018), Bastien in Bastien und Bastienne Mozart (Brisbane City Opera, 2017), Lia in Debussy's L'entfant Prodigue (2017),

and Nancy Waters (Albert Herring, Britten, 2016).

Naomi has performed the Mezzo-soprano solo’s in JS Bach’s Easter Oratorio, Australian premier of JCF Bach’s Die Auferweckung des Lazarus, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn's Paukenmesse, "Nelson" Mass, as well as Mozart’s Vesperae

Solennes de Confessore, Requiem and Coronation Mass.

She has been awarded the Elizabeth Muir Operatic Award (2018), Linda Edith Allen (undergraduate) award (2016) for the best recital, as well as the Donald Penman prize for voices

joint for her work in 2015.