B I O G R A P H Y
Cassandra Doyle is a 23-year-old Australian-German mezzo-soprano, currently based in Essen. For the 2024/25 season, she is a member Opernstudio NRW and a recent young artist of the Salzburg Festival 'Young Singers Project'. Cassandra's upcoming roles include Die würdige Dame in Der Spieler (Prokofiev) with the Salzburg Festival, Flora Bervoix in La Traviata (Verdi) with Oper Dortmund, Hänsel in Große Oper Klein: Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) with Oper Wuppertal, Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Rossini), Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (Wagner) and Mrs Moreno in The Listeners (Mazzoli/Vavrek) with the Aalto Musiktheater Essen.
Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying voice with Maree Ryan AM and Dr. Rowena Cowley (2023). In the 2023 finals of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition, Cassandra was awarded the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (CVAI) Montreal Scholarship assisted by the Nell Pascal Award, the Zeke Solomon Award to attend the Israeli Opera Young Artist program at the Meitar Opera Studio, and the Nicole Car Prize to receive mentoring sessions from herself in Paris. She has also been a recipient of the Stefan Kruger Scholarship (2MBS Fine Music FM, 2024), Istituto Italiano di Cultura Award, and Goethe-Institut Prize (IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition 2022, 2023), Patricia Bell Grant (2020), Patricia Long Scholarship (2023) and George and Margaret Henderson Scholarships (2023, 2024) afforded her the opportunity attend the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester on a short-exchange and pursue further study in Europe.
Cassandra’s other competition successes include 2nd Prize in the Sydney International Song Prize (Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation, 2022) and a Finalist in the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Song Competition (2022, 2023).
Cassandra has performed the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Ino in Semele (Handel) and Irene in Theodora (Handel), Leila in Iolanthe (Sullivan) and Madame Frida in the Australian premiere of Max and Moritz (Draguns).
Her concert soloist engagements include Requiem Op. 48 (Fauré), Messiah (Handel), Requiem in D minor (Mozart), Krönungsmesse (Mozart), Magnificat (Vivaldi), Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 (J.S. Bach), Magnificat RV.611 (Vivaldi), Messe de Minuit (Charpentier), Petit Messe Solenelle (Rossini), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Requiem Op.9 (Duruflé), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Duranté), Gloria (Vivaldi), Rückert- Lieder (Mahler), Kindertotenlieder (Mahler), Lauda Per La Nativita del Signore (Respighi).
In 2022 Cassandra was a recitalist for The Women's Club, taking part in their 'Women in Music' Limelight concert series and is a regular recitalist at St. James Church, King Street, Sydney.
Masterclasses include that by Graham Johnson OBE, Tahu Matheson, Erin Helyard, Miriam Allan, David Miller AM, Christian Müller, Lynne Dawson, Taryn Fiebig, Alexandra Flood and Konstantin Shamray.
During her studies Cassandra has been an Alto choral scholar with St. James Church, King Street, Apprentice Artist with The Song Company and collaborated with Cantillation, Bach Akademie Australia and Ensemble Apex.
A graduate of the Conservatorium High School, Cassandra was a concert soloist at the Sydney Opera House for the NSW Arts Unit Festival of Music (2019) and a featured artist in the NSW Schools Spectacular (2019).
Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying voice with Maree Ryan AM and Dr. Rowena Cowley (2023). In the 2023 finals of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition, Cassandra was awarded the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (CVAI) Montreal Scholarship assisted by the Nell Pascal Award, the Zeke Solomon Award to attend the Israeli Opera Young Artist program at the Meitar Opera Studio, and the Nicole Car Prize to receive mentoring sessions from herself in Paris. She has also been a recipient of the Stefan Kruger Scholarship (2MBS Fine Music FM, 2024), Istituto Italiano di Cultura Award, and Goethe-Institut Prize (IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition 2022, 2023), Patricia Bell Grant (2020), Patricia Long Scholarship (2023) and George and Margaret Henderson Scholarships (2023, 2024) afforded her the opportunity attend the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester on a short-exchange and pursue further study in Europe.
Cassandra’s other competition successes include 2nd Prize in the Sydney International Song Prize (Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation, 2022) and a Finalist in the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Song Competition (2022, 2023).
Cassandra has performed the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Ino in Semele (Handel) and Irene in Theodora (Handel), Leila in Iolanthe (Sullivan) and Madame Frida in the Australian premiere of Max and Moritz (Draguns).
Her concert soloist engagements include Requiem Op. 48 (Fauré), Messiah (Handel), Requiem in D minor (Mozart), Krönungsmesse (Mozart), Magnificat (Vivaldi), Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 (J.S. Bach), Magnificat RV.611 (Vivaldi), Messe de Minuit (Charpentier), Petit Messe Solenelle (Rossini), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Requiem Op.9 (Duruflé), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Duranté), Gloria (Vivaldi), Rückert- Lieder (Mahler), Kindertotenlieder (Mahler), Lauda Per La Nativita del Signore (Respighi).
In 2022 Cassandra was a recitalist for The Women's Club, taking part in their 'Women in Music' Limelight concert series and is a regular recitalist at St. James Church, King Street, Sydney.
Masterclasses include that by Graham Johnson OBE, Tahu Matheson, Erin Helyard, Miriam Allan, David Miller AM, Christian Müller, Lynne Dawson, Taryn Fiebig, Alexandra Flood and Konstantin Shamray.
During her studies Cassandra has been an Alto choral scholar with St. James Church, King Street, Apprentice Artist with The Song Company and collaborated with Cantillation, Bach Akademie Australia and Ensemble Apex.
A graduate of the Conservatorium High School, Cassandra was a concert soloist at the Sydney Opera House for the NSW Arts Unit Festival of Music (2019) and a featured artist in the NSW Schools Spectacular (2019).
“… boasts an excellent stage presence, as does Cassandra Doyle in the pants role of Cherubino. Doyle nearly stole the show pretending to be the boy pretending to be a girl. Her feigned inability to walk in heels was hilarious.”
- Jansson J. Antman, Limelight
“Alto Cassandra Doyle’s solo is exceptionally
beautiful”
- Shamista de Soysa, Limelight
“Alto Cassandra Doyle displayed a rich mezzo tone well suited to the demands of the rigorous and despairing aria "Ach, bleibe doch" which Bach would develop further in his great Mass in B minor.”
- Victoria Watson, SoundsLikeSydney
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