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Michael Lampard is
22
years old and has just completed a ‘Bachelor of Music with Honours’ degree
at the
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music,
Australia studying classical voice under
Suzanne Ortuso. He is
the inaugural recipient of the ‘DJ Motors Tasmanian University Scholarship’. Michael is a founding member of the
early music vocal ensemble “Consorte
di Sospiri Interrotti”.
Michael has received recognition nationally and internationally, performing as soloist in recital, oratorio and opera. In 2004 Michael was awarded Associate of Trinity College London diploma and in 2005 Licentiate of Music Australia diploma.
Michael has performed as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Hobart Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Pasdeloup, Rome Festival Orchestra, Melbourne Opera, Alexander Productions, Bel Canto Young Opera, IHOS Opera, Ice Breaker Productions (Adelaide), Tasmanian University Musical Society, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir, Tasmanian Chorale, Launceston Philharmonic Society, The Friends Singers and the Hobart Orpheus Choir. Conductors he has worked with include: Richard Bonynge, Placido Domingo, Fritz Maraffi, Simon Kenway, Timothy Sexton, Jean Louis Forestier, Gary Wain, Myer Fredman, Carol Nies, Peter Tanfield, Jonathon Grieves Smith, Rick Prakhoff, Greg Hocking and Simon Reade.
Michael has been featured on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) national radio in the recital series ‘Young Australia’, and ABC Tasmania state radio as a regular guest artist. ABC national and state television has broadcast several documentaries on Michael’s development through boy soprano to baritone. In 2007 Michael was selected as a quarter-finalist in Placido Domingo’s OPERALIA competition in Paris. He was also a semi-finalist in the Australian Singing Competition and quarter-finalist in the McDonald’s Aria in Sydney. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Australian Singing Competition – The Mathy Awards in which he received four awards including the audience vote award. He holds prizes from the National Liederfest, and is a Joan Sutherland Scholarship award finalist. He is a recipient of the 'Director's Prize' (2007), ‘Margaret Raward Award’ (2004), “Frank Schuster Memorial Award” (2006), 'Nelson Prize' and the 'Jessie Wakefield-Luckman Prize for voice' and has twice been included on the 'Dean's roll of excellence' at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. In July 2006 he was awarded first prize in the ‘DJ Motors Operatic Aria’ at the City of Hobart Hobart Eisteddfod. In 2007 Michael was the recipient of the Hobart Orpheus Choir Scholarship.
In 2005 Michael appeared in the role of Guglielmo from the Mozart opera ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ at the Rome Opera Festival. Michael was selected through international audition and is the first Australian singer to be involved with this festival.
Michael’s repertoire encompasses many roles in operas and oratorios including 'Carmen' (Bizet); 'The Call of Aurora' (Joe Bugden); ‘15 Years on Hold’ (Matthew Dewey); 'Trial by Jury' (Gilbert and Sullivan); ‘For No Apparent Reason?’ (Griffiths); ‘Da Ponte in Absentia’ (Koukias); “Olegas’ (Constantine Koukias); 'Cats' (Lloyd Webber); ‘Cinderella’ (Peter Maxwell-Davies); ‘La Serva Padrona’ (Pergolesi); 'La Boheme' (Puccini); 'Trial by Jury' (Gilbert and Sullivan); ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart); “Touch Wood” (Pompili); ‘Dido and Aeneas’ (Purcell); “Love’s Lesson’s Learned” (Sussmann); ‘As if electronically Controlled’ (Workshop) (C. Williams) ; 'St. Matthew Passion' (J.S. Bach); 'Requiem’ (Durufle); 'Te Deum' (Dvorak); ‘Requiem’ (Faure); ‘In Ecclesiis’ (Gabrielli); ‘Messiah’ (Handel); 'Prayer bells’ and “Troparion 2 – Only Begotten Son” (Constantine Koukias); ‘Requiem’, ‘Missa Longa’ and ‘Vesperae Sollemnes De Confessore’ (Mozart); ‘Psalm 150’ (Schutz).
Michael regularly performs in concert recitals from the genres of English art song, German lieder, French Melodie, Arie Antiche, Sacred vocal repertoire as well as commissioning and performing new works from composers as far spread as Mexico. Concert works include ‘Five Mystical Songs’ and ‘‘Songs of Travel’ (Vaughan Williams) ‘Gesange Des Harfners’ (Schubert); ‘Liederkreis Op. 24’ and ‘Dichterliebe’ (Schumann); ‘Kindertoten-lieder’ (Mahler); “Songs of the Fleet” (C.V. Stanford); 'Six songs from a Shropshire Lad' (Butterworth); 'Psalm Eighty Four' (Sheridan); 'Five Popular Greek Songs (Ravel); ‘Don Quichotte e Dulcinee’ (Ravel); ‘An Die Ferne Geliebte’ (Beethoven); ‘When Night Her Purple Veil’ (Purcell); “Dalla Guerra Amorosa” (Handel); ‘A Twelfth Night Interlude’ (Don Kay); “Let us garlands bring” (Finzi); “Eight Epitaphs” (Chanler) and ‘Insomniac’ (Matthew Dewey). Accompanists Michael has had the pleasure to work with include Karen Smithies, Claire Cooper, Myra Huang, Dean Sky-Lucas, Janet Perkins, Sharrolyn Kimmorly, David Harper, David McNicol; and Shirley Trembath.
In 2007 an album entitled 'Scent
of Snow ' was released in Japan and fea
tured
Michael Lampard singing music by Tasmanian composer Tim Jones. For this
release Michael appeared live on NHK radio in Japan.
Michael teaches classical voice privately, with students having success in local competitions and eisteddfods and successfully auditioning for national children’s choirs.
Upcoming performances include Schubert's 'Winterreise' two recitals in Hobart including an Australian premiere performance of John Metcalf's song cycle 'In time of Daffodils', the world premiere of Matthew Dewey's 'The Buzz of the Sea' and a performance of John Rutter's 'Mass of the Children' with the Friends Singers. In the coming years, Michael will also sing in the full performance seasons of Constantine Koukias' new opera 'Olegas' and in Joe Bugden's opera 'The Call of Aurora'. Michael has also been offered a position in Di Capo Opera's resident artist program, a position he is intending to take up in 2009.
Michael is also gaining recognition as a counter-tenor. To find out more about this aspect of Michael's career Click here.
To see Michael's performance schedule Click Here
Awards and Scholarships 2004 to the present:
2004
DJ
Motors Music Scholarship. University of Tasmania
Winner Open German Lieder. Clarence Eisteddfod,
Tasmania
Winner Intermediate Australian Art Song, Mc Donald’s Performing Arts
Challenge, Sydney.
Second Intermediate Italian Song, Mc Donald’s Performing Arts Challenge,
Sydney.
Semi Finalist Herald Sun Aria. Royal South Street Eisteddfod, Ballarat.
Margaret Raward Award, Directors Prize, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
2005
DJ
Motors Music Scholarship. University of Tasmania
Winner Open German Lieder. Clarence Eisteddfod,
Tasmania
Ian Field Memorial
Award, Liederfest, Victoria
2006
DJ
Motors Music Scholarship. University of Tasmania
Winner Open German Lieder. Clarence Eisteddfod,
Tasmania
Winner Open German
Lieder. Hobart Eisteddfod, Tasmania
Winner DJ Mazda Operatic Aria. Hobart Eisteddfod, Tasmania
Open Mozart Opera Award. Hobart Eisteddfod, Tasmania
Frank Schuster Memorial Award. Directors Prize Tasmanian Conservatorium of
Music
Nelson Prize, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Australian Opera Auditions Committee, Australian Singing Competition
Foster Award, Australian Singing Competition
Universal Music Prize, Australian Singing Competition
2007:
DJ
Motors Music Scholarship. University of Tasmania
Quarter Finalist Operalia, Paris
Quarter Finalist, McDonald’s Aria, Mc Donald’s Performing Arts Challenge,
Sydney
Semi Finalist Australian Singing Competition
Winner Directors Prize Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Jessie Wakefield Luckman Prize, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Hobart Orpheus Choir Scholarship.