The Women’s Club is excited to present a special evening of music and conversation in partnership with Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST).
MOST is a charity which has been promoting excellence in the music and opera sectors since 1982. Their organisation's mission is to promote excellence in music, the performing arts and related education sectors. They achieve this by managing two of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for young artists, the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition (ASC) and the ABC Young Performers Awards.
The ASC is Australia’s richest competition for young opera & classical singers, featuring a Scholarship named after the late Marianne Mathy-Frisdane, a distinguished operatic soprano who trained many well-known Australian singers.
The Competition itself is a rigorous three-stage process in which pre-eminent Adjudicators from the Australian and international singing and music fraternity hear entrants as they compete in the Heats, which are hosted in each State. The finalists are selected during the Semi-Finals Concert held in Sydney on August 18, from which five Finalists are selected.
The Finals will be held on 19 September in the Concert Hall of The Concourse in Chatswood, and the contestants will each perform two items, accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra. A Panel of esteemed music professionals will announce the awards at the conclusion of the concert, with the recipient of the Mathy Scholarship being named as the overall ASC winner.
Winners and finalists in these competitions have access to unique opportunities via scholarships and prizes and have gone on to achieve remarkable successes, often becoming internationally profiled performers, teachers and ambassadors for Australian talent. Ultimately, these young musicians also make a significant contribution to, and raise the profile of, Australia’s music culture.
The Women’s Club is delighted to host a performance by one of the very talented Finalists from this year’s Australian Singing Competition.
Program
The music selection will be advised once the performer is announced.
2 x 20 minute ‘sets’ followed by a Q & A.
Bradley Gilchrist will provide the piano accompaniment. Bradley completed a Bachelor of Music at the WA Conservatorium of Music, and post-graduate studies in accompaniment and piano performance in Sydney and Madrid. He has numerous concerto performances to his name and has given solo and chamber music recitals across Australia and in South Korea, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Bradley has been repetiteur for many of Sydney’s chamber opera companies as well as being in demand as an accompanist and vocal coach for auditions, recitals, examinations and concert performances.
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