Voice 2022 – Art Song Division
soprano
2022: Born in Australia and based in Munich, soprano Alexandra Flood is plainly passionate about her craft. Since her 2014 debut at the Salzburg Festival, Alexandra Flood’s lyric coloratura instrument has stretched from Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment to Bernstein’s West Side Story.
Alexandra Flood rounds out her dramatic palette with concert and recital work. She loves a good Liederabend, judging from her rich history of recital work in Australia, Norway, and Venice’s iconic Teatro la Fenice.
She was a 2019 Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she also performed works by Schubert and Jake Heggie. In 2020 she was awarded the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation Bel Canto Award in Sydney, Australia.
Training
2014-2017: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich & Theaterakademie August Everding Munich, Master’s Degree
2008-2011: University of Melbourne
Principal Teachers
- Neil Semer, 2014-present
- KS Prof Andreas Schmidt, 2014-2017
- Anna Connolly, 2011-2013
- Vivien Hamilton, 2004-2011
Prizes and Awards
- 2015 & 2017: 2nd Prize, Richard Strauss Competition, Munich, Germany
- 2015: Winner, Australian Music Foundation Award, London, UK
- 2014: Awardee – Acclaim Opera Awards Teatro alla Scala Fellowship, Italy
- 2014: Winner, Opera Foundation for Young Australians AIMS Award, Australia
Programme
FIRST ROUND
FRANZ SCHUBERT Liebesbotschaft
(Schwanengesang, D. 957)
LILI BOULANGER Elle est descendue au bas de la prairie
(Clairières dans le ciel)
ARIBERT REIMANN The Couriers
(Six Poems by Sylvia Plath)
RICHARD STRAUSS Ständchen
(6 Lieder, Op. 17)
JAKE HEGGIE Not in a silver casket
(Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia)
Pianist: Alex Raineri
Alexandra Flood is generously sponsored by the Famille Jean C. Monty
