Biography
Bronwyn Douglass is an exciting young mezzo-soprano from Australia.
She graduated with a Masters in Operatic Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 2014, also receiving an award for academic excellence and the Wagner Society in Queensland Encouragement Award. She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the Australian National University School of Music. She has attended The Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto, Italy (2018), The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School (2013-2015) and the Mediterranean Opera Summer Program, Sicily (2014).
Bronwyn has performed the roles of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Co-Opera (2018), Olga in Eugene Onegin for Co-Opera (2016), Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Opera Projects, Sydney (2016), Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata for Opera New England (2016); Nadezhda von Meck in Sean Ross’ new opera Tchaikovsky, Angel of Music (2015), Miss Baggot in Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (2015); and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas for the Brisbane Baroque Festival (2015).
On the concert platform she has recently performed Beethoven 9th Symphony and Mass in C Major in Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' "Chorus Oz - Ode to Joy", including a choir of over 800 singers from around the country. She has previously performed Five Tudor Portraits with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs to rave reviews (2017), and the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2015 & 2016) and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic (2016). She was also a soloist in the Music on Sunday’s Series with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2015) and performed as the Alto Soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria for the 4MBS Festival of Classics (2014).
Bronwyn has received many awards, grants and scholarships. In 2017 she was the winner of two prestigious awards: The Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and The Opera Foundation for young Australians Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship. This saw her undertake 6 months of private studies overseas in 2018 including 3 months of study in New York with coaches and teachers from The Juilliard School and The Metropolitan Opera. She was also one of the 3 finalist in The Opera Foundation for young Australians Deutsche Oper Berlin Award (2018) and was the proud recipient of the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship with the Melba Opera Trust (2016-2017).
Bronwyn’s upcoming performances include: Opera Under the Stars in Broome, performing with Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Georgia Wilkinson and Phoebe Briggs.
She graduated with a Masters in Operatic Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 2014, also receiving an award for academic excellence and the Wagner Society in Queensland Encouragement Award. She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the Australian National University School of Music. She has attended The Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto, Italy (2018), The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School (2013-2015) and the Mediterranean Opera Summer Program, Sicily (2014).
Bronwyn has performed the roles of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Co-Opera (2018), Olga in Eugene Onegin for Co-Opera (2016), Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Opera Projects, Sydney (2016), Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata for Opera New England (2016); Nadezhda von Meck in Sean Ross’ new opera Tchaikovsky, Angel of Music (2015), Miss Baggot in Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (2015); and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas for the Brisbane Baroque Festival (2015).
On the concert platform she has recently performed Beethoven 9th Symphony and Mass in C Major in Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' "Chorus Oz - Ode to Joy", including a choir of over 800 singers from around the country. She has previously performed Five Tudor Portraits with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs to rave reviews (2017), and the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2015 & 2016) and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic (2016). She was also a soloist in the Music on Sunday’s Series with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (2015) and performed as the Alto Soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria for the 4MBS Festival of Classics (2014).
Bronwyn has received many awards, grants and scholarships. In 2017 she was the winner of two prestigious awards: The Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and The Opera Foundation for young Australians Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship. This saw her undertake 6 months of private studies overseas in 2018 including 3 months of study in New York with coaches and teachers from The Juilliard School and The Metropolitan Opera. She was also one of the 3 finalist in The Opera Foundation for young Australians Deutsche Oper Berlin Award (2018) and was the proud recipient of the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship with the Melba Opera Trust (2016-2017).
Bronwyn’s upcoming performances include: Opera Under the Stars in Broome, performing with Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Georgia Wilkinson and Phoebe Briggs.