Valda Wilson, Soprano   

 Valda sang at Schubertiade 325.

A Bachelor of Science graduate from the University of Sydney, Valda is now in her third year of studies at the Conservatorium of Music in the Diploma of Opera, under the tuition of Stephen Yalouris. She has a penchant for all styles of music from Bach through to classical opera, art song, and twentieth century jazz, and a great love of performing.

Valda has performed with several of Sydney 's amateur musical societies, in roles such as Aline in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Sorceror", Edith in "The Pirates of Penzance", Pitti-Sing in "The Mikado", Musetta and Mimì in Puccini's "La Boheme", Pamina in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", and Blonde in Mozart's "Seraglio".

For the Conservatorium Opera School , she has performed the roles of Susan in "A Dinner Engagement" by Sir Lennox Berkeley, and the scheming Amore in "Paride ed Elena" by CW Gluck.  Last year she presented a live recital on classical Sydney radio station 2MBS-FM, and will be featured again this year in mid-June as part of the station's Young Performers programme.

As a soprano soloist with the Sydneian Bach Choir, she has performed in several of their "Bach 2010" concerts at Sydney Grammar School .   At the end of last year, she sang the Bach cantata for soprano and trumpet "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" with Orchestra-143, and gave several performances of Mozart's "Exsultate, jubilate."  She is a member of the Pacific Opera Ensemble performing in concerts and radio broadcasts across Sydney .

In 2007, Valda will be singing Geraldine in Samuel Barber's "A Hand of Bridge" and Rosina in Haydn's "La Vera Costanza", both for the Opera School .

Completing her Diploma this year, Valda will audition for the opera schools in the United Kingdom and go on to further study abroad with a view to a career in opera houses in both Europe and Australia .

Please visit www.virb.com/valdawilson  for Valda's upcoming performances, photographs, and biography.