Pianist Anna Gao. Photo credit: Cameron Jamieson It's the penultimate episode of this year's Young Performer Summer Series! Tonight's featured performer is pianist Anna Gao, who won 3rd prize on The Talent in Season 1, 2019. Anna Gao began studying piano at the age of 9, making her debut concerto appearance with Preston Symphony Orchestra … Continue reading Pianist Anna Gao // Young Performer Summer Series
Soprano Teresa Ingrilli. Photo Credit: Matt Biocich This week on the Young Performer Summer Series is soprano Teresa Ingrilli! Perth born and raised, Teresa Ingrilli is a soprano based in Melbourne. This year, Teresa is an emerging artist for Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artist Program, a chorus member for Victorian Opera, a semi-finalist for … Continue reading Soprano Teresa Ingrilli // Young Performer Summer Series 2022
This week on the Young Performer Summer Series, we're featuring rising star soprano Amelia Wawrzon! Performer Bio Melbourne-born soprano Amelia Wawrzon is an Emerging Artist with Melbourne Opera and Opera Scholars Australia and recent recipient of a major prize in the prestigious Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award. She graduated from her Master … Continue reading Soprano Amelia Wawrzon // Young Performer Summer Series
It's Week 2 of the Young Performer Summer Series! This week, rising star guitarist Clancy McLeod will perform works which will take us from 18th century Germany to 20th Spain via Paraguay.
Invictus Quartet. Photo credit: Mo Productions Happy New Year! 🎉 We hope you've had a fantastic summer break, and that you have a wonderful 2022 ahead. We're thrilled to tell you that starting tonight we're bringing back the Young Performer Summer Series to 3MBS in the count down to the start of The Talent. For … Continue reading Invictus Quartet // Young Performer Summer Series
Join us for a night of wonderful music performed by rising star pianist Brian Luo, first prize winner of the 2021 season of The Talent. He’ll be joined by guest artists and fellow finalists, pianists Ray Liang and Hannah Shin in an evening of stunning piano music by Liszt, Ravel, Bartok, Haydn, Miriam Hyde and Scriabin. … Continue reading 5 Dec: The Talent Winners’ Recital!
Interview special TONIGHT! It’s our second interview special delving into what it’s like to be a young performer in today’s competitive world. This week, The Talent host Teddy Darling (remotely) sat down for a chat with cellist & Composer Ceridwen McCooey, flautist Matthew Mulherin and soprano Harmony Lee. They discussed experience at competitions, the valuable … Continue reading INTERVIEW SPECIAL: WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A YOUNG PERFORMER?
Joseph Lallo is a Saxophone Lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor. He is the Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Saxophone Festival, and a member of the chamber music ensembles ‘Collide’, with cellist Yelian He and pianist Yasmin Rowe, and ‘Duo Obax’, with oboist Briana Leaman. Passionate about performing new Australian music, Joseph has premiered over 30 works for saxophone, and in 2021 recorded for ABC Classics.
16-year-old Ben Fu was born in China, and began his piano studies at the age of 7. Ben has won several first prizes since 2019 after coming to Australia, mostly recently being the first prize of 2020 Boroondara Eisteddfod piano concerto competition.
Our second guest mentor for Episode 1 is cellist Zoe Knighton! After starting cello at the age of nine with Jill Kahans, and graduating from the University of Melbourne with the highest mark of her year, Zoe went on to establish herself as one of the country's most sought after cellists.
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