Tickets: $25 adult, $20 concession and U18 $15. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
The Gippsland Symphony Orchestra invite you to join them in a celebration concert to honour Women in Song.
The GSO is proud to be accompanied by two of the most outstanding sopranos sisters, Iris Zavou and Janneke Ferwerda, to perform well-known and loved duets from the Opera and Music Theatre canon. Lisa Blackman also joins the GSO to perform The Grande Tarantella by Gottschalk for piano and orchestra, and composers Elana Katz Chernin and Sarah Hopkins will also have other compositions on display. The Gippsland Symphony Orchestra is excited to bring this celebration of women to the Regent Theatre!
Iris Zavou studied a Bachelor of Music at the Australian Catholic University and holds a LMUSA in classical voice. Since completing her studies, Iris has featured as soloist in the Newman College Choir, 3MBS, Hamer Singers and Gilbert and Sullivan Society Australia. She has also been involved with other ensembles including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Opera Scholars Australia, Citi Opera and the Australian Girls’ Choir. Iris works as a Voice Tutor at St Michael’s Grammar School as well as the Australian Girl’s Choir and her own private studio.
Janneke Ferwerda is a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. It was there she was awarded a First Class Honours for a Bachelor of Music (Hons) specialising in classical voice performance. Janneke has sung in productions by Victorian Opera, Opera Scholars Australia, More than Opera, The Melbourne Festival and internationally including a guest artist recital in Dubai’s House of Pianos. She has also featured as a soloist on classical radio station, 3MBS. You will also find Janneke sharing beautiful, meditative vocals for events across Melbourne’s yoga studios and motivating other singers as a private vocal coach.
Lisa graduated from Burwood College (now Deacon Uni) with an Associate Diploma of Music in 1987. She started teaching as an associate teacher to Margriet Pendavingh. Lisa branched out to teach privately after a couple of years on the side of full time employment outside music. She stopped teaching and relocated from Melbourne to Gippsland, and after settling in resumed teaching in Yarram. Lisa finished full time employment with the move to Gippsland and took the opportunity to resume work with Margriet. Lisa has completed exams under AMEB, Trinity College and ANZCA with honours in 2007.