Margaret Plummer

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Margaret Plummer studies voice with Dr. Rowena Cowley and gained a Bachelor of Music (Studies) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2005. 

 

Margaret attended The Australian National University’s School of Music studying Jazz Vocal Performance in 2000. While in Canberra she performed at Parliament House, the National Press Club and at both the Manly and Marouya Jazz Festivals. In Sydney she has performed as a soloist with the Sydney Conservatorium, University of NSW, Macquarie University Singers and Bel a cappella Choirs, the Georgian Singers, The Hastings Choristers and the Sutherland Shire Choral Society.

 

In 2003 Margaret was a Semi-Finalist in the Australian Singing Competition’s Mathy Awards. In 2004 and 2005 she was awarded the Geoffrey Rothwell and Helen Myers Scholarships from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was the recipient of the Marja Baudish Encouragement Award in the 2004 Joan Sutherland Vocal Scholarship.

 

In 2005 Margaret took part in the Ronald Dowd Summer School and then spent 5 months in Germany undertaking language courses in Berlin and a semester of university at the Hanover Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Also that year she performed the role of Dorabella in Pacific Opera’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte then, in 2006, sang the role of Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Ozopera School’s Company in 2006.  She is now a full time member of the Opera Australia Chorus. In 2007 she understudied the roles of the Third Wood-Sprite in Russalka, Alms Sister and Lay Sister in Suor Angelica and The Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Margaret recently was awarded 1^st Prize in The City of Sydney Opera Awards.