Michelle Cook
Michelle Cook
Michelle Cook commenced her musical training and performance as a child on piano. She began professional vocal training in 1999. Since then, Michelle has won and or has been a finalist in several competitions including; the Austral Salon, Armstead Scholarship, Dandenong and Boroondara Eisteddfod. She is currently in her third year at the VCA, completing a Graduate Diploma in Opera.
In 2002, she won the Singer of the Year competition held by the Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir and the 2003 Sleath Lowrey Rotary Scholarship at the Victorian College of the Arts.
She has sung in many concerts and recitals including the Italian National Day Celebration(2002), the US Consulate 4th of July Celebration and the German Lutheran Church 150th Anniversary concert which was broadcast on SBS radio (2003).
She has performed the Soprano solo in the Mahler 2nd Symphony with the VCA Symphony Orchestra, the role of Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress for VCA Opera and OzOpera and joined with the 3 Chinese Tenors in a gala concert with orchestra, including Lisa-Anne Robinson and Angela Brewer, in Darwin.
Michelle has been described by one of Australia's most celebrated Opera singers as having 'a vocal and histrionic maturity which is rare and exciting'.
She desires to perform in Opera companies here and in Europe to study and perform in the future, with her husband Alan and two children.