Australian born mezzo
soprano Fiona Campbell is an accomplished international performer, recitalist
and recording artist. Vocal
winner of the ABC Young Performer of the Year Award and the Opera Awards, in
the prestigious Australian Singing Competition, Fiona has consistently received
wide critical acclaim for her powerful performances and exquisite musicianship.
Fiona sings
regularly as a principal artist with the major ensembles and orchestras in
Australia and has also appeared with the Brodsky Quartet, Tokyo Philharmonic, Soloists of Royal Opera House
Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Odessa Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic,
Euro-Asian Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera
North, Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera.
Career highlights include singing several concerts with the legendary
tenor José Carreras in Japan, Korea and as his special guest artist in
Australia. Fiona has toured regularly with another singing legend, Barbara
Bonney, and recently made her debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Cadogan Hall
in London with the renowned international Soprano.
Many of her recitals for the ABC have been recorded and her
discography for ABC Classics includes, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Vivaldi’s Juditha
Triumphans, Early French Cantatas, Classic
100 Opera, and Just Classics 2.
Her Baroque Duets recording is recieving Five Star reviews and
includes a world premiere recording of a work by Handel.
Her long awaited solo
album LOVE + LOSS will be released this February.
Great critical acclaim has been
received for her portrayals of favourite operatic roles, such as, Olga Eugene Onegin, Hansel Hansel and Gretel, Dorabella Cosi fan Tutte, Siebel Faust, Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Venus Tannhauser,
Ruggiero Alcina, Idamante Idomeneo, Vagaus Juditha Triumphans, Erisbe L'Ormindo
and she was nominated for a Helpmann Award for her portrayal of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro.
In 2011 her busy concert schedule included, Schoenberg’s Pierrot
Lunaire with the Australia Ensemble and touring with the ACO in their
widely acclaimed program Listen to This, curated by Alex Ross.
Fiona is winner of the Limelight
Award for Best Solo Performance in 2011 following her Haunting Handel tour with
the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
2012 is shaping up to be an exciting year, with future engagements including Beethoven 9th with the ACO, Orfeo with the ABO and the Mozart Requiem with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House with David Zinman conducting.
