Very much influenced by the work of three singers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bryn Terfel and Sherrill Milnes. Specialist repertoire Mozart, Verdi, Schubert and 20th/21st Century Opera.
Sounds Like
A young Fischer-Dieskau mixed with Thomas Allen and hint of Sherrill Milnes on the side.
Michael Lampard (A.T.C.L., L_Mus., B_Mus)
Michael is 21 years old and has just completed a ‘Bachelor of Music’ degree at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, studying classical voice under Suzanne Ortuso. He is the inaugural recipient of the ‘DJ Motors Tasmanian University Scholarship’. In 2007 Michael will complete his “Honours” degree and the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. In demand as a soloist in recital, oratorio and opera, and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Orchesta Pasledoup, Hobart Chamber Orchestra, Rome Festival Orchestra, Alexander Productions, Bel Canto Young Opera, IHOS Opera, Ice Breaker Productions (Adelaide), Tasmanian University Musical Society, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir, Tasmanian Chorale, Launceston Philharmonic Society and the Hobart Orpheus Choir.
Michael has been featured on ABC national radio and ABC national and state television. This year he was a finalist in the Australian Singing Competition – The Mathy Awards and was the recipient of four awards including the audience vote award. He holds prizes from the National Liederfest, and is a Joan Sutherland Scholarship award finalist. He is a recipient of the Directors Prize ‘Margaret Raward award’ (2006) and “Frank Schuster Memorial Award” (2006) from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. In July 2006 he was awarded first prize in the ‘DJ Motors Operatic Aria’ at the Hobart Eisteddfod. In 2006 Michael was a finalist and in 2007 a semi-finalist in the Australian Singing Competition. In 2007 Michael was selected from international audition as a quarter finalist in Placido Domingo's OPERALIA competition in Paris.
Michael’s repertoire encompasses many works and composers including ‘La Serva Padrona’ (Pergolesi); ‘Cinderella’ (Maxwell-Davies); ‘For No Apparent Reason?’ (Griffiths); ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ (Mozart); ‘Da Ponte in Absentia’ (Koukias); “Love’s Lesson’s Learned” (Sussmann); “Touch Wood” (Pompili) '15 Years on Hold' (Dewey), 'Dido and Aeneas' (Purcell), ‘Requiem’, “Missa Longa’ and ‘Vesperae Sollemnes De Confessore’ (Mozart) ‘Requiem’ (Faure) ‘Requiem’ (Durufle), ‘Messiah’ (Handel) “Prayer bells’ and “Troparion 2 – Only Begotten Son” (Koukias). ‘Five Mystical Songs’ and ‘‘Songs of Travel’ (Vaughan Williams) ‘Gesange Des Harfners’ (Schubert); 'Dichterliebe' and 'Liederkries Op. 24' (Schumann), ‘Kindertoten-lieder’ (Mahler); “Songs of the Fleet” (C.V. Stanford); ‘Don Quichotte e Dulcinee’ (Ravel); “A twelfth night interlude” (Don Kay); “When Night her Purple Veil” (Purcell); ‘An Die Ferne Geliebte’ (Beethoven); and ‘Insomniac’ (Dewey).
Although Michael's repertoire is so vast, he has a few areas of particular interest: The operas of Mozart and Verdi, the Schubert lied repertoire and contemporary opera particularly by English and American composers including Tobias Picker. Michael is also a big supporter of new Australian music commissioning works and performing several premieres by young and established composers.
In 2003 Michael commenced studying composition and works include a mass setting and two chamber operas, songs, song cycles and choral works. He is currently composing a full-scale opera, a choral magnificat and a song cycle for baritone voice based on the poetry of Australian poet Margaret Scott. Michael also studied conducting with Jean Louis Forestier and Tze-Law Chan and is this capacity works with Bel Canto Australia and musically directs the male vocal ensemble “Ensemble Del Sarte”. Michael teaches classical voice privately, with students having success in local competitions and eisteddfods.
Upcoming performances include ‘Winterreise’. (Schubert), Matthew Passion (Bach) 'Olegas' (Koukias), Cats (Llyod Webber), and the 'The Call of Aurora' (Bugden) and several roles in new operas and standard repertoire. He also has large amount of recitals and concerts booked well into 2009.
“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
i love you back, but i do love you more because i have been on the planet longer. I hope you are doing some work.. so that you're done when i get home. ; )
Nah..I don't think you're a Don Giovanni..lol. Michael I MISS YOU! Sounds like life is going swimmingly for you. Maybe someday I'll come and visit you and be say, I know him! We need to go back to Italia! Take Care!
Yeah, still at Freedom and Uni though I was wearing my suit because I am currently doing an internship with Searson Buck! I can see you have been keeping yourself busy lately!
Are you working... you would want to be mr!!!!! Oh but if you are online that means you made out alive from office works. yay. I love you more than all the fototocoppying you just did. X
hey congrats on that whole big privelage thing! i can't quite remember what it was haha, but i know it was big. now i will feel so inadequated and shamed if i accompany u in accompaniment class in a couple of weeks!
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