Merlyn Quaife
Merlyn Quaife is a distinguished soprano and performer of great versatility, acclaimed in opera, oratorio, lieder, chamber music and contemporary repertoire throughout Australia, Europe and the USA.
She began voice studies at the University of Melbourne and in 1979 was awarded a DAAD Scholarship for postgraduate study in Munich.
Back in Australia she has been a regular ABC performer and broadcaster, and has appeared with each of the State Opera Companies. She returns regularly to Europe for contemporary music, one of her fortes: those performances are stamped by intensity of expression and a powerful vocal technique. She has performed and recorded in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Spain and France.
Besides the recordings in this catalogue she has also recorded Aria for John Edward by David Lumsdaine, which won her a Sounds Australian Award.
She has taught voice as a Lecturer in Voice at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne.
‘Miss Quaife is a thoroughly versatile singer, capable of going straight from Baroque to computer music.’ (The Australian)
‘... a talented singer with a rare ability to capture the mood and nuances of a song and portray its character vividly.’ (The Advertiser)
Artist's website: www.merlynquaife.com
Merlyn Quaife is featured on the following titles
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss presents two song cycles by Australian composer Johanna Selleck, setting poetry by Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Melbourne poet Graeme Ellis (1944–).
Lest We Forget: A Manifest of Struggle and Hope
Welcome to the world’s first “classical” protest CD. The music ranges widely across Germany, France, England, Austria, Poland, Chile, the USA and Australia, touching world wars, the Holocaust, dictatorships and the stolen generation. It is a no-holds-barred plea for humanity to recover humanitarian values before it is too late.
Credit: Liner Notes
Recital: Australian Art Song
Merlyn Quaife (soprano) and Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) present a recital of Australian art song spanning the twentieth century, from Percy Grainger and Fritz Hart to Keith Humble and David Horowicz.
Merlyn Quaife also appears on
Bright Vessel
Tall Poppies is proud to release Bright Vessel, an important collection of Australian works for solo oboe and oboe d’amore, gathered and performed by Stephen Robinson.