This year, dramatic mezzo-soprano Carli Walker joins Pacific Opera, Sydney, as a Telstra Wholesale Young Artist 2010.
In 2009, she travelled to Perleberg, Germany, as a participant in the Lotte Lehmann Akademie – “an intensive 4-week program for exceptional singers preparing for a career on the international operatic stage”.
Carli holds a B.Mus(Hons) and a B.Arts (Creative-Music) and has appeared in stage and concerts works throughout the Toowoomba area.
Productions in which Carli has appeared include The Yeoman of the Guard, The Beggar’s Opera, Carousel and Cosi fan Tutte. Carli has appeared as a soloist with the USQ Singers, Toowoomba Concert Orchestra, Toowoomba Philharmonic Society and Ars Cantorum. She has also performed with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Victoria in Melbourne.
Carli has been a member of the Opera Queensland Chorus for several years, performing in such operas as Lucia di Lammermoor (2006), Madama Butterfly (2007), Turandot (2008) and La Traviata (2009).