Phoebe Tait is a Perth-born, Melbourne-based soprano. She is a UWA Graduate (2024) in her second year of a Master of Music degree at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music under the tutelage of Anna Connolly. Phoebe has a long history of choral singing, having sung with Gondwana Voices in Germany and the UK, The Giovanni Consort, The St George’s Cathedral Consort, The St George’s College Consort on a residential scholarship, and The Song Company as an apprentice.

Phoebe is exploring the operatic repertoire, singing in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Cendrillon (Massenet), Das Kleine Mahagonny (Weill) and Suor Angelica (Puccini) with the Melbourne Conservatoium, and Victorian Opera’s The Lyrebird’s Voice. Her musical passion knows no genre, from studying Italian baroque vocal ornamentation of the sixteenth century, right up to debuting the title role in her dear friend Rose Russell’s contemporary opera Helena (2024). 

Sophia Gyger is an emerging lyric mezzo-soprano who primarily works in oratorio and concert repertoire. She completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2025, studying with Anna Connolly, and will soon embark upon a Master of Arts in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Sophia is particularly fond of Baroque repertoire, with an especial love for J.S. Bach, but also sings music from all eras right through to the present day, and has performed in a number of new works. She is passionate about the lieder of Brahms and Mahler, and is eager to gain more experience in a range of genres including opera and English song.

Sophia also has an interest in ensemble singing, having grown up in children’s choirs including the world-renowned Gondwana Voices. Recent ensemble highlights include a one-per-part performance of Orlande de Lassus’ sacred madrigal cycle Lagrime di San Pietro, and singing with the Consort of Melbourne with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Griffin AM & Terry Swann Scholar Matthew O’Leary is a Melbourne-based tenor who has commenced his Honours year in his Bachelor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has been a member of the Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Choir, Early Voices and Vocal Ensemble groups since 2022, working under the direction of Anna Connolly, Andrea Katz, Steven Grant and Nick Dinopoulos. 

O’Leary has a decorated resumé as a soloist with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Chamber Choir in Dvořák’s Mass in D and as a soloist in the Conservatorium’s Early Voices ensemble’s performance of Heinrich Bieber’s Requiem.

Leyland Jones is a Bass and Multi-Instrumentalist hailing from Southwest Victoria and is studying his Masters of Opera at the Melbourne Conservatorium. With The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, he has toured Italy, Ireland and the UK, singing a vast repertoire including the Australian Premiere of Eric Whitacre’s Sacred Veil. Leyland’s passion for contemporary music has led him to perform in works such as Consort of the Moon with Genevieve Lacey and Erkki Veltheim.

His work also includes forays into cabaret, with performances of Diskogesang with pianist Stefan Cassomenos as part of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival. Recent operatic credits include Chorus and Theseus (cover) in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Melbourne Conservatorium), Chorus in Melbourne, Cheremushki (Victorian Opera), Sarastro (cover) in Die Zauberflöte (Melbourne Conservatorium) and Masetto in Don Giovanni (BK Opera).