Victoria is a singing teacher, repertoire coach, and lyric diction teacher and coach. As a singer, she has performed as a principal artist with Opera Australia, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Germany), Victorian Opera, Opera Queensland, The State Opera of South Australia, The Australian Ballet, and other companies in Australia and overseas. On the concert platform, she has performed as a soloist with the Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland and Adelaide Symphony orchestras, with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sir Andrew Davis. She has performed extensively in Europe and Asia and recorded for ABC Classics and Chandos Records. Awards include the German-Australian Opera Grant, Australian Music Foundation Award, and Peter Moores Foundation (UK) scholarships. Victoria studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and was a young artist with Opera Queensland. She completed further studies at the Accademia Rossiniana (Italy) and studied vocology (the science and practice of voice habilitation) at the Summer Vocology Institute run by the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah. Victoria was one of the first Australians to be awarded the PAVA-Recognised Vocologist professional designation and is one of the first to teach the Melofonetica Method of Italian lyric diction in Australia. In addition to teaching, Victoria maintains an active performing career and is currently completing a PhD on absolute pitch in singers.

Victoria teaches into the following subjects:

Undergraduate:

English Lyric Diction - MUSI30283

German Lyric Diction - MUSI130266

Postgraduate:

Lyric Diction for Opera (Italian and German) - MUSI90239

Core Skills in Opera 1 - MUSI90231

Opera Performance Practicum 1 & 3 - MUSI90160 & MUSI90171

Major Role Preparation - MUSI90237

Opera Atelier - MUSI90243

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Victoria Lambourn

Associate Lecturer in Music (Voice)

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

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