ANITA KYLE received her Licentiate Diploma in Music (LMusA) in Singing under Maree Ryan at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and attended international summer schools at the American Institute of Music in Graz and the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria.

Winner of the National Operatic Aria, Music Teachers’ Association of NSW Vocal Scholarship; semi-finalist in the McDonalds’ Operatic Aria Scholarship; finalist in the 2MBS-FM Young Performer of the Year; ABC Young Performer Awards, and the Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship.

While studying under Anthea Moller, Anita was awarded the MTO German-Australian Opera Grant, a 12-month solo contract at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her roles included: the 15 YEAR OLD in Lulu; FRASQUITA in Carmen; SOPHIE in Werther; SANDMÄNNCHEN and TAUMÄNNCHEN in Hansel and Gretel; PAPAGENA in The Magic Flute; LUIGIA in Viva La Mamma; PASIPHAE in Ariadne; JUNGFRAU and ENGEL in Das Paradies und die Peri; GOUVERNANTE in Orpheus and Eurydice; and LIESCHEN in Bach’s Kaffee Kantate. Her four years in Germany also included oratorio performances.

Anita has since performed in Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with pianist and Associate Professor Gerard Willems, clarinetist Dr. Deborah De Graaf and in joint recitals with organist Mark Quarmby, baritone James Martin, tenor Brad Cooper and accompanists Robert Andrew Greene, Josephine Allan and Louise Scott.

Her concert repertoire performed under the baton of Christopher Bowen with the Sydney University Graduate Choir includes Handel’s Israel in Egypt, C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat; Heinchen’s Mass No. 9; Handel’s Messiah; Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Beethoven’s Kantate auf den Tod Kaiser Josephs II and Mass in C Op.86 and Gossec’s Messe des Morts.

Anita has also performed under the baton of Dr. Carlos Alvarado and with the Manly-Warringah Choir in Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras (No. 5); Faure’s Requiem, Casal’s El cant dels Ocells; Jenkins’ The Armed Man and Stella Natalis; Haydn’s Mass No. 10 in C Major and Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore K339, Mass in C Minor K427, Regina Coeli and Requiem; Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël Op.12, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Pergolesi’s Magnificat.

Noted Australian pianist Josephine Allan is much in demand for her chamber music and ensemble playing, and regularly collaborates with leading singers and instrumentalists.

Originally from Canberra, Josephine studied there with Ann Thompson, John Winther and Larry Sitsky before moving to Sydney for postgraduate work with David Miller and Nikolai Evrov. She combines a busy performing and teaching career with her work in the Ensemble Studies, Vocal, and Conducting Units at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

As the Sydney Symphony’s Principal Keyboard from 1996 to 2012, she has worked with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, and Edo de Waart. She has also performed with a diversity of other companies, such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Australia Ensemble, the Song Company, Cantillation, the Seymour Group, Alpha Ensemble, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, and Opera Australia.

Her recordings include several CDs of Australian music with clarinettist Phillipa Robinson of Perehelion for the Innaminka label, as well as frequent live and studio broadcasts for ABC Classic FM. She is also featured on Sinfonia Australis’ Willow Spirit Song, Alpha Ensemble’s Clocks, and on the film tracks Sydney-A story of a City, Mao’s Last Dancer, and Happy Feet.

Josephine regularly appears as a Chamber Musician with many distinguished artists including Elizabeth Campbell, John Pringle, Michael Lewis, Nicole Youl, Paul Wright, Janis Laurs, the Australian String Quartet, the a capella group Syntony, and members of the Australia Ensemble. She works regularly with the contemporary music group Halcyon, formed by Jenny Duck-Chong and Alison Morgan, and is also a member of the newly formed Flametree, with Jenny Duck-Chong and Nicole Thompson.

As Sydney Philharmonia Choir’s Principal Accompanist for many years, Josephine has experienced all the major choral works both in rehearsal and performance. She also works with many other choirs, including Gondwana Choirs, Willoughby and Warringah Choruses, Cantillation and many others.

Recently Josephine has developed a keen interest in fostering young musical talent, commencing piano teaching at Wenona School in North Sydney, and UNSW as well as maintaining a private studio.