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Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - Applications

Phoebe Edwards

SINGER

Phoebe Edwards

NATIONALITY:

Australian

PIANIST

Isabelle Mohan

PIANIST TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PRIZE?

No

SINGER BIOGRAPHY:

Phoebe is studying her MMus at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under the tutelage of Professor Raymond Connell. Her studies are funded by the University of Melbourne’s Alumni Scholarship Programme and the Tait Memorial Trust. In 2024, Phoebe received First Class Honours for her Honours in Music Performance/Musicology. She holds a double degree in Music and Arts (Philosophy and Creative Writing), which fuel her passion for the intersection of language and music in opera. Over the past year of living in the UK, Phoebe’s operatic roles have included “Venere” (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), “Barbarina” (Le Nozze di Figaro) and “Nymph I” (Echo) in Royal Academy of Music’s Student Create Opera. Outside of her studies, Phoebe works as a singing teacher at King’s College and as a choral scholar at St Ethedreda’s Church, Fulham. In Australia, Phoebe’s musicality has been recognised through the H. Holt and R. Prochazka Award at the National Liederfest (2022) and the Gabrielle Roberts Memorial Scholarship at Eisteddfod by the Bay (2023). Phoebe performed extensively with Opera Scholars Australia (2021–2023) and with the Choir of Trinity College (2018–2020), where she travelled internationally to Europe in 2018 and North America in 2020.

APPLICATION VIDEO 1:

"The Cloths of Heaven" (Rebecca Clarke) 21/11/25

APPLICATION VIDEO 2:

"Greeting" (Rebecca Clarke) 21/11/25

SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL PROGRAMME PROPOSED:

Semi-final proposed programme:
Greeting (Rebecca Clarke): 1 min 30 seconds
Cloths of Heaven (Rebecca Clarke): 2 min 30 seconds
Night Thoughts: No. 1, Sleep (Errollyn Wallen): 3 min 30 seconds
Night Thoughts: No. 2, Bright Lights (Errollyn Wallen): 3 min 30 seconds
Total: 11 minutes

Final proposed programme:
Greeting (Rebecca Clarke): 1 min 30 seconds
Cloths of Heaven (Rebecca Clarke): 2 min 30 seconds
A Dream (Rebecca Clarke): 2 minutes
Night Thoughts: No. 1, Sleep (Errollyn Wallen): 3 min 30 seconds
Night Thoughts: No. 2, Bright Lights (Errollyn Wallen): 3 min 30 seconds
Night Thoughts: No. 3, There’s a Certain Slant of Light (Errollyn Wallen): 4 min 20 seconds
Night Thoughts: No. 4, Night Thoughts (Errollyn Wallen): 1 min 30
Total: 19 minutes

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