PHILLIPA'S STORY

Phillipa has studied voice and piano since age 8. From the ages of 10-16 she has performed with Gondwana Voices at the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Conservatorium of Music and toured the Kimberly, Tasmania, and Taiwan, also composing and performing a choral installation at the Melbourne White Night Festival, which was voted second most popular installation at the annual event.

She has played several lead roles in music theatre and opera in her hometown of Geelong and at Trinity College, Melbourne (‘Brundibar’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat’, ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Urinetown’). In 2022 Phillipa worked as the Music Director on the student film ‘Sparky’ the Musical.

She was invited as a guest soloist with the Geelong Concert Band and held a permanent position as a lead stage band vocalist and competed with them and the Geelong College Pegasus singers at the James Morrison Generations in Jazz Festival. Phillipa has been invited to perform at public festivals, official ceremonies and events, weddings and funerals since a very young age and has a great deal of performance knowledge and experience to share with others.

After winning several local awards and receiving recognition for her talent she has gone onto further her study and training in classical voice at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Through which she has performed at Melba Hall and St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne. She is also a performing member of the prestigious Trinity College Chapel Choir with whom she has toured and recorded in Spain, France, and the UK, singing in iconic venues such as St Paul's Cathedral in London and Windsor Castle. In 2020 the choir did a tour of America and Canada singing in famous venues such as Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. This year the choir will be touring Italy, Dublin and the UK, performing at notable venues such as St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. With the Trinity choir Phillipa has recorded three albums (‘Beneath the Incense Tree [2018]’, ‘Land of Dreams [2019], ‘Walking on Waves [2020], ‘Eric Whitacre: The Sacred Veil [2022]’).

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Phillipa has been teaching singing and piano since 2017 and is currently studying her Master of Teaching at Swinburne Online.