Fiona Campbell is one of Australia’s most
versatile and beloved classical singers. A mother, producer and ABC guest
presenter, accomplished international performer, recitalist and recording
artist. Winner of the national Limelight Award for Best Solo Performance
2011, with the ABO in their Haunting Handel concert
series, 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 all of 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, 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 and
Korea and as his special guest artist in Australia. Fiona has also been a
touring favourite with Barbara Bonney, making her debut at Suntory Hall in
Tokyo and Cadogan Hall in London with renowned international Soprano.
Fiona has recorded many
recitals with national broadcasts. Her first solo album Love & Loss
was released this year and her
discography includes Baroque Duets, which features a world
premiere recording of Handel (Vexations840), Classic 100 Opera, Mozart’s Idomeneo,
Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans, Early French Cantata’s and Just
Classics 2 (ABC Classics).
Her busy concert schedule has included works as varied as Schoenberg’s Pierrot
Lunaire with the Australia Ensemble and
directing a special program on newly commissioned
arrangements with the Australian String Quartet. Fiona was a feature artist in
Musica Viva’s Huntingdon Festival last year and in 2013 is thrilled to continue
performing an exciting array of roles and repertoire with the best ensembles in
the country, including; Dido for Sydney Philharmonia, Cinderella for Opera
Queensland, Mozart Mass in C minor with the ABO, Haydn and Mozart with MSO, TSO
and is particularly thrilled to be singing one of her favourite song cycles,
the beautiful Les Nuits d’ete with the West Australian Sypmhony
Orchestra.
