Tasmanian baritone Michael Lampard is 22 years
old and has completed a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours
studying with
Suzanne Ortuso.
Michael has received recognition nationally and internationally, performing
as soloist in recital, oratorio and opera. In 2004 Michael was awarded
Associate of
Trinity College
London diploma and in 2005 Licentiate of Music Australia diploma.
Michael has performed as soloist with the
Sydney Symphony
Orchestra,
Tasmanian Symphony
Orchestra,
Hobart Chamber
Orchestra,
Orchestre Pasdeloup,
Rome Festival
Orchestra, Melbourne Opera,
Alexander Productions,
IHOS Opera
in repertoire ranging from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Purcell’s
Dido and Aeneas to Puccini’s La bohème and many Australian and
world premieres. Conductors he has worked with include:
Richard Bonynge,
Placido Domingo,
Fritz Maraffi,
Simon Kenway,
Timothy Sexton,
Jean Louis Forestier,
Gary Wain,
Myer Fredman,
Carol Nies,
Peter Tanfield,
Jonathon Grieves
Smith, Rick Prakhoff, Greg Hocking and
Simon Reade.
In 2007 he was selected as a quarter-finalist in Placido Domingo’s OPERALIA
competition in Paris. In that year he was also a semi-finalist in the
Australian Singing Competition. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Australian
Singing Competition in which he received four awards including the audience
vote award.
In 2005 Michael appeared in the role of Guglielmo from the Mozart opera
Così
fan tutte at the
Rome Opera Festival.
Michael was selected through international audition and is the first
Australian singer to be involved with this festival. Michael regularly
performs in concert recitals from the genres of English art song, German
lieder, French Melodie, Arie Antiche, Sacred vocal repertoire as well as
commissioning and performing new works from composers both in Australia and
Overseas. In 2007 an album entitled
Scent of Snow
was released in Japan and featured Michael Lampard singing music by
Tasmanian composer Tim Jones. For this release Michael appeared live on NHK
radio in Japan.
Upcoming performances include Schubert's
Winterreise, the Australian premiere performance of John Metcalf's
song cycle In time of Daffodils, the world premiere of
Matthew Dewey's
The Buzz of the Sea
and a performance of John Rutter's Mass of the Children.
