Featured artists
David Rogers-Smith, Coordinator of Classical Voice
- David Rogers-Smith is the Classical Voice Coordinator at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance. He is a performer, teacher, workshop leader and choral conductor. David’s performance career has seen him appear on opera, musical theatre, concert, oratorio, and cabaret stages and has performed with all major orchestras in Australia (SSO, MSO, APO, OV). David has been a clinician for the annual Junior Theatre Festivals in both Australia and the USA - running workshops for several thousand young singers. Musical Theatre credits include over 2,500 performances as Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera; Les Miserables, Chicago, Funny Girl, and Marry Me A LIttle. With Victorian Opera: Sunday In The Park With George, Into The Woods, and Sweeney Todd. Operatic credits include Iain Grandage's The Riders, Paul Grabowsky's Banquet of Secrets, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, the title roles in both Pagliacci and Faust, Carmen, Kirov Opera’s Salome, Gaugin – a synthetic life, From A Black Sky and The Merry Widow.
Antoinette Halloran
Star of OperatunityOz and Spicks & Specks, Antoinette Halloran is one of Australia’s most accomplished and best-loved sopranos. She performs regularly with all the major Australasian opera companies and symphony orchestras and appears frequently on national television and radio.
Her leading appearances for Opera Australia have included the title roles in Madama Butterfly and Rusalka, Mimi in La boheme, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Green Room Award), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Despina in Cosi fan Tutte, Gianetta in The Gondoliers, Ellen in Lakme and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore; for New Zealand Opera – Mimi; for Victorian Opera – Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte and Adina in L’elisir d’amore; for Melbourne Opera – the title role in Tosca, Cio-Cio-San, Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi and Pamina in The Magic Flute.
Filip Fulco
Filip Fulco is currently studying his Bachelor of Music at Monash University, where he is specialising in Classical Piano Performance under Robert Chamberlain. With experience accompanying vocal soloists/choirs and instrumental soloists, he is passionate about fulfilling the role of an accompanist. With a particular penchant for vocal music, Filip has been able to explore this repertoire under the tutelage of Dean Sky-Lucas in his studies and his work for the Monash University Choral Society (MonUCS). In addition to his experience at University he has experience accompanying for AMEB exams and school recitals. With his music studies Filip is also completing a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Psychology.
2026 DAY OF CLASSICAL VOICE
Sunday 13th of September 10am - 2.45pm
Check-in opens at 9.45am