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Current members
Holly Caldwell's interest in music began at a very young age, her first loves being the violin and piano. Her abilities quickly broadened across a range of instruments, including voice, and a large assortment of musical styles. Holly has taken part in a wide variety of different ensembles, including the Burnt Bridge Orchestra, and has performed in a number of musicals, most memorably as Katisha in Hot Mikado.
Edwina Harrison has studied music for over 20 years and gained a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in voice and conducting from Australian Catholic University in 2001. In 2003, she competed in the 3rd International Youth Competition in Bulgaria and won first prize. She returned to Bulgaria in 2004 to study conducting. Edwina recorded the soundtrack to the film Jindabyne with Paul Kelly in 2005 and was a member of the Aria award winning world music ensemble Soteria Bell. She has directed two musicals and many choirs and in 2004 received an Australia Day award for her services to local music. She is a principal soprano with the experimental opera company Emotionworks.
Katharine Smith began singing in 1987 with the Victorian Children's Choir, with them she toured extensively and performed at many important events, most memorably the AFL Grand Final. Katharine was also a member of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir for two years and took part in their annual performance Handel's Messiah & Verdi's Requiem as well as Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Liz Mackie has always loved to sing, a love encouraged by all the members of her very musical family. She honed her skills through years of singing with a large variety of different groups, school choirs, church choirs, madrigal groups and a cappella ensembles like Once More with Feeling. Liz relishes the challenge of unaccompanied close harmony singing and finds ample opportunity and enjoyment in her work with Ladybird Blues.
May Jasper has sung in a wide variety of different choirs over the years, at primary and secondary school, university and beyond. Her highlights include the Choir of Geelong Grammar School's European Tour and two successive Intervarsity Choral Festivals with the Melbourne University Choral Society. May has also performed in a number of musicals including Pirates of Penzance as Ruth and spent two years as cast member of Melbourne Gang Show.
Ramona has been a violinist and singer from a very young age, initially playing with her family. She played in her school chamber group and orchestra, and sang in her school choir and madrigal group. She has broadened her repertoire over many years performing a range of styles and in a variety of environments. Together with the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra at Expo 88 in Brisbane and The South Melbourne Community Orchestra, Ramona has extensive experience as a singer and instrumentalist with rock and folk bands and has performed at numerous weddings, pubs and festivals around the country.
Past members
Karen Corr is a soprano who started her singing with the Victorian Children's Choir in 1984. Highlights during her 8 years with the choir included a European Tour, singing with John Farnham and Foreigner and singing in a Christmas documentary for Channel 10. Karen has been in a number of other choirs since including various church and youth choirs and more recently an a cappella choir Once More with Feeling.
Kate Peake has been singing since she was nine years old. She started off with six years in the Victorian Children's Choir where she won the Mary Nesbitt encouragement award in 1992. Since then she's been in numerous choirs including four years with a cappella group Once More with Feeling. As well as singing Kate has been part of the production team for musicals like Guys and Dolls and Godspell.
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