Tasmanian Soprano, Georgia Cooper, is currently enrolled in the Masters of Opera Program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying voice with Maree Ryan AM.

Scholarships include: Peter Davidson, Chapple/ Bremner, Helpmann Family Fellowship and Patricia Lucas Music Scholarships. A recipient of the George and Margaret Henderson Traveller’s Scholarship, Georgia travelled to Manchester, Great Britain and Trentino, Italy for operatic performance development programs.

Roles include: Erste Dame, Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) with conductor Lochlan Brown, Fortuna, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi/ Kats-Chernin) with conductor Stephen Mould, Principal Soprano, Triptico (Kats-Chernin), Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Silvia, Zanetto (Mascagni).

Concert repertoire as soloist include: The Creation (Haydn) with conductor Omid Mohebzadeh and Requiem (Fauré)

Georgia’s upcoming performances include Contessa from Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) with conductor Craig Kier at the Prague Summer Nights Festival and soloist in Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms) for the Illawarra Choral Society.

Queensland Baritone Jake Lyle is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Music (Performance) in Classical Voice at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University under the tutelage of Dr Margaret Schindler. During his studies at QCGU, Jake has received the Elizabeth Muir Undergraduate Memorial Award (2022) and the Nora Baird Memorial Fund Audition Bursary (2022).

Jake has performed extensively in the opera program at QCGU having recently played Tonio in I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) and Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri (Rossini) as part of the Val Machin Opera Scenes. In 2023, Jake played Jupiter in scenes from Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) in the context of Val Machin Opera Scenes and main stage opera, Underworld: An Operatic Journey to Hell and Back, with direction and conceptualisation by Michael Gow. In September, Jake will play Marco in Gianni Schicci (Puccini) in September 2024 at the Queensland Conservatorium.

Jake has also been selected to participate in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program later this year.

Soprano Ariana Ricci completed her BMus (Performance) in 2023 from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied as a full scholarship student. She currently studies voice with Dr. Anke Hoeppner-Ryan. Recent awards include the Ted and Susan Meller Memorial Scholarship, the Demant Dreikurs Song Competition Audience Prize, and the Henderson Travellers Scholarship to attend the RNCM Winter School in 2023.

Ariana’s performed operatic roles include Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Le Feu (L’enfant et les sortileges), Nymph/Spring/First Woman (the Fairy Queen), and First Witch (Dido and Aeneas). Concert soloist credits include ‘Nelson Mass’ (Haydn), Messiah (Handel), Chamber Symphony (Isaacs), Exsultate Jubilate (Mozart), and Passion and Resurrection (Ešenvalds), for which she was the Soprano 1 soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra last year.

During her Bachelors, Ariana pursued a double major in voice and violin, and her previous teachers also included Dr. Rowena Cowley (voice), and Assoc.Prof. Goetz Richter (violin). Ariana will begin a Masters in Vocal Performance at the Royal College of Music in London later this year under full scholarship.

Soprano Molly Ryan is completing her Masters of Opera at the Sydney Conservatorium, studying with Maree Ryan AM. She has been the recipient of the Greenberg Gurney Jensen Fund, Helen Myers Scholarship, Florence Mary Verga-Smith Award, Henderson Travellers Scholarship, and first prize of the 2023 Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Competition. Molly’s roles include Theodora (Handel), Knusperhexe – Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Piacere – Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Handel), La Princesse – L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), Belinda and Second Witch – Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), Susanna – Il Segretto di Susanna (Wolf-Ferarri) and Maguelonne – Cendrillon (Viardot). In 2024, she debuts the world premieres of Mother – The Lullaby (Zhen) and Menarche (O’Donoghue), and Australian premiere of Mauxalinda – The Dragon of Wantley (Lampe). Concert repertoire includes Messiah (Handel), Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Krönungsmesse (Mozart), Missa in Angustiis (Haydn), Missa Cellensis (Haydn), Magnificat (Vivaldi), Requiem Op. 48 (Faure).