Helen Sherman

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Helen Sherman was born in Bathurst and moved to Sydney to pursue her singing career at the age of seventeen.  Her stage debut was at the age of three singing, dancing and playing the piano at the Bathurst Eisteddfod.  At ten she joined Bathurst's Carillon Theatrical Society in shows such as Annie, Bye Bye, Birdie, The Sound of Music and Me and My Girl then, at 16 she was chosen to sing the national anthem at the Bathurst V8 Super Car Championships, broadcast to millions internationally.

 

A recent Graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Helen last year obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Opera, under the direction Dr. Rowena Cowley, having already gained a  Bachelor of Music Performance from the Conservatorium in 2003.

 

As a member of the choirs of Christ Church St. Laurence and the Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, Helen has toured internationally, singing in Westminster Abbey in London, Notre Dame and La Madeleine in Paris, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Smokey Mary’s in New York, the Vienna Festival, and the Béla Bartók International Music Festival in Hungary.

 

Helen has featured as a soloist and chorister on ABC Classic FM and 2MBS FM on numerous occasions. Her roles include Grand Duchess of Monteblanco in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Opera School production of Lennox Berkely’s A Dinner Engagement, Lisetta in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna, cousin Hebe in Rockdale Municipal Opera’s HMS Pinafore and third lady in Pacific Opera's Magic Flute.  Helen can be seen regularly around Sydney performing with groups such as Cantillation, Pinchgut Opera, Opera Australia, Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence in works including Mozart’s Idomeneo and Requiem, Handel's Dixit Dominus and The Messiah, Scarlatti's Stabat Mater, Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor and Mendelsshon’s Elijah.

 

Helen won The Evelyn Hall de Izal Memorial Award for Mezzo Soprano at the 2006 MacDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge, was featured as a Finalist in the 2006 2MBS FM Young Performer Award and qualified to the Semi Finals of the MacDonald’s Operatic Aria.  Also in 2006 Helen was awarded a Helpmann Family Trust Scholarship, and is a recipient of scholarships from Ars Musica Australis, The Opera and Arts Support Group, the Dame Joan Sutherland Society and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Helen hopes to continue her studies internationally in pursuit of a solo singing career.