Trainees 2010/11

Sopranos
Susana Gaspar
Aoife O'Sullivan

Mezzo-sopranos
Maire Flavin
Justine Gringyte
Hanna Hipp

Tenors
Tyler Clarke
Nathan Vale
John Pierce

Baritones
Oliver Dunn
Duncan Rock

Bass
Jimmy Holliday
Ross McInroy

Repetiteurs
Sonia Ben-Santamaria
Julian Black
Elizabeth Rossiter
Heather Tomala

Lucinda-Mirikata Deacon soprano

British-Australian Soprano Lucinda-Mirikata Deacon holds a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and recently completed a Masters of Performance with a distinction from Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied on the opera course with Rudolph Piernay supported by The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers and The Gwen Catley Scholarship of The Amar-Franses and Foster Jenkins Charitable Trust.

Lucinda-Mirikata has performed the roles of Lady Billows Albert Herring Benjamin Britten, La Comtesse Chérubin Massenet, Eleonora L’Assedio di Calais Donizetti, Agafya The Marriage Martinu (GSMD), Bertha Il barbieri di Siviglia Rossini (Pacific Opera), Elpide Betrayal New Australian Opera as well as Schubert and Samuel Barber chamber opera (Sydney Conservatorium) and excerpts from the roles: Mimi La boheme, Countess Figaro, Elisabetta Roberto Devereaux, Miss Jessel Turn of the Screw, Primadonna Ariadne auf Naxos, Konstanze Entführung and Natasha War and Peace.

Concert experience includes a Strauss Lieder Recital in the Barbican Hall (LSO pre-concert series) as well as the Australian Premiere of Beethoven’s Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph the II, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria. She has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Richard Bonynge.

Lucinda-Mirikata was the winner of the 2009 Bruce Millar/Gullivar Prize, Scotland and was the runner up in the 2005 Australian Singing Competition (winning the Royal-Over-Seas League Prize for recital at St. James Piccadilly and St Martin in the Field, the RNCM Prize and the Nell Pascal Award) and has received many other awards including the Joan Sutherland Vocal Scholarship (2004), the Joan Carden Award (2005) and the Paul Worthington Prize of the Opera and Arts Support Group of Sydney (2007).

Lucinda-Mirikata is a Wingate Scholar and is generously supported during her studies at the The National Opera Studio by The Eileen Goddard Memorial Bursary, The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Tait Memorial Trust, The Sybil Tutton Award of The Musicians Benevolent Fund and The Opera & Arts Support Group of Sydney.