Amanda holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and Master of Music (Opera Performance) from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

 

Her roles include: ‘Fortuna/Damigella’ in Monterverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea (2021), ‘Titania’ in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and ‘Papagena’ in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2023). Other roles studied include Despina in Mozart’s Cosí Fan Tutte.

 

For Victorian Opera, she covered the principal role of ‘Olivia’ in their 2021 youth production of Schubert’s Friends of Salamanca and recently performed as the ‘Squirrel-Monkey’ in Joe Twist’s The Grumpiest Boy in the World at Arts Centre Melbourne (2023). 

 

She has been a finalist and prize winner in several esteemed competitions-the MCM Aria/Concerto Competition, Opera Scholar’s Australia Aria Competition, and the 39th National Liederfest, where she received the Lynette Casey-Brenton and Ian Field Memorial Awards. Most recently she was a finalist and Third Prize Winner in the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Competition, in Federation Square (2024). 

 

She sung as the soprano soloist for Victoria Chorale, in the Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio (2022) and frequently collaborates Kew Philharmonic choir, performing rarely-revived baroque works.

 

Later this year, she hopes to present a recital of classical Filipino and Spanish music, in celebration of her heritage (2025).