Meet our Artistic Directors!
Grace Gallur is a soprano, actor, and conductor drawn to work that chronicles small people in grand narratives and champions richly detailed inner lives. Across both music and acting, she is inspired by the catharsis that is gifted to an audience when they recognise a piece of themselves in someone else’s hands. As such, Grace commits herself to the challenge of blending strong vocal technique and a high-fidelity attention to detail with truthful acting and a vulnerable honesty.
Grace is currently in her final year of studying a Bachelor of Music (Performance: Classical Voice) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, where she studies with Stephen Grant. She has also recently graduated from 16th St Actors Studio’s 2018/2019 Part Time Program. In 2019, Grace was delighted to join the Victorian Opera Chorus for Wagner’s Parsifal. Grace has performed with MCM Early Voices, singing as a soprano soloist in Mozart’s Vesperae Solemnes de Confessor, conducted by Erin Helyard, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Melbourne Baroque Project, and was a member of the cover cast for MCM’s 2018 production of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. She greatly looks forward to exploring more of the operatic repertoire as her voice matures. In 2020, Grace looks forward to tacking Joby Talbot's masterpiece Path of Miracles with Candlelight VOX and Divisi Chamber Singers this year. Grace has also recently accepted a conducting scholarship with the Melbourne Bach Choir. Grace has aspirations to complete postgraduate research in the intersection between operatic singing and 20th century acting pedagogy. She looks forward to bringing her excitement and curiosity to a career in both acting and classical music. |
Aidan McGartland is studying a Bachelor of Music and a Diploma of Languages (Italian) at the University of Melbourne, where has was awarded a singing scholarship in 2017. He currently learns singing from Suzanne Johnston, piano from Timothy Young and conducting from Pat Miller.
Aidan was chorally trained in the Australian Boy’s Choir. He then performed in the children’s chorus with Melbourne Opera and Opera Australia. In 2011, Aidan was the first boy in Victorian Opera’s The Magic Flute and had the title role of the Son of Getron at Newman College. In 2012, he was in the Sydney Symphony’s Sinfonietta Composition Project under Richard Gill. With Victorian Opera, Aidan has participated in youth operas, VOYCE, William Tell and Parsifal. In 2017, he was in the Conservatorium’s L’Orfeo. He was the bass scholar at St George’s Anglican Church, Malvern from 2018-2019. In 2019, Aidan received a scholarship to study at McGill University in Montréal for the second half of the year. |