A resident of Brisbane
since her childhood, Amy Wilkinson was born in Fremantle Western Australia.
Having begun vocal training while still in her teens, she currently studies
with Dr. Margreta Elkins in Brisbane as well as with Ruth Falcon in New York
and Professor Soutrios Papulkas in Germany. In 2004, she graduated from the
Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree. In her
second year of studies, she was awarded the Sir Mostyn Hanger Opera
Scholarship and earned a High Distinction Award for her performance in the
title role of Puccini's Suor Angelica. Other roles undertaken during her
studies include Frasquita in Carmen and Countess in The Marriage
of Figaro. Earlier she had performed Rose in Ruddigore, Elsie in
The Yeomen of the Guard and Yum-Yum in The Mikado for
Queensland Musical Theatre.
Amy Wilkinson
has participated in Master Classes with several distinguished teachers
including Sarah Walker (at the Australian National Academy of Music), Sir
Donald McIntyre and Jeffrey Black (at the University of Queensland). She
has also undertaken courses in French and Italian at the University of
Queensland and in German at the Moreton Institute.
As a Young Artist with
Opera Queensland in 2003, she appeared as soloist in a variety of concert
programmes including Opera in the Rainforest, Music Beneath the Stars and
Moonlight & Mozart & the Movies. A highlight of 2003 was a Proms
concert with The Queensland Orchestra under the baton of Michael Christie.
She has also performed two recitals for 4MBS - Jane Austen: The Music of
her Time and a Schubertiade in their Festival of Classics series. Other
appearances include a concert with the Australian Army Band - Music at
Midday and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
In 2004, Amy Wilkinson made
her role debut as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the
Queensland Conservatorium of Music as part of the Brisbane Festival. In
that year she was also awarded the Brisbane Club Award, was a finalist in
the McDonald's Aria competition and she won the recording prize of the
Australian Singing Competition.
As a result of winning the
much-coveted Metropolitan Opera Auditions Award at the Sydney Opera House in
2004, she has completed 3 months of study at the Metropolitan Opera, New
York. In 2005 she sang the title role in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha
along with Haydn’s Seasons for the Queensland Choir and performed
Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Queensland.
