Miss Australia was the title for the winner of the Miss Australia Quest or the Miss Australia Awards, which ran from 1954 until 2000, when the last Miss Australia was named. From 2002, the Miss World Australia contest has been held, and the Miss Universe Australia contest has been held since 2004.
The Elder Conservatorium of Music, also known as "The Con", is Australia's senior academy of music and is located in the centre of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It is named in honour of its benefactor, Sir Thomas Elder. Dating in its earliest form from 1883, it has a history in professional training for musical performance, musical composition, research in all fields of music, and music education. The Elder Conservatorium of Music and its forerunners have been parts of the University of Adelaide since the early 1880s.
Marianne Mathy was a coloratura soprano opera singer and distinguished teacher of opera and classical singing.
Lisa Kinkead Gasteen AO, is an Australian operatic soprano, known for her performances of the works of Wagner. She won the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1991. She did not perform between 2008 and 2011, due to neuro-muscular spasms in her neck.
Erin McNaught is an Australian model, actress, presenter, television personality and beauty pageant titleholder. McNaught grew up in Australia alongside her older brothers and began playing in a band named "Short Straw" in her teenage years. After starting a career in modelling she represented Australia at the Miss Universe 2006 competition. After her participation McNaught went on to secure more modelling contracts and television jobs. In 2007 she took acting classes and secured a part in the soap opera Neighbours playing the role of Sienna Cammeniti. In 2010, she was employed by MTV and fronted their MTV Hits Weekly Hot30 Countdown show.
Danielle de Niese is an Australian-American lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the United States where she developed her operatic career. From 2005 she came to widespread public attention with her performances as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England.
Kate Melina Miller-Heidke is an Australian singer and songwriter. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music. She signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK, but since 2014 has been an independent artist. Four of her solo studio albums have peaked in the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart, Curiouser, Nightflight, O Vertigo! and Child in Reverse. Her most popular single, "The Last Day on Earth", reached No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart after being used in promos for TV soap, Neighbours, earlier in that year. At the ARIA Music Awards Miller-Heidke has been nominated 17 times.
Gertrude Emily Johnson was an Australian coloratura soprano and founder of the National Theatre Movement in Melbourne.
Chloe Bennett Dallimore is an Australian actor, singer and dancer, best known for performances in musical theatre.
Dulcie Sybil Holland AM was an Australian composer and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Board, Holland has in recent decades gained greater recognition as a composer. She is now regarded by some critics as one of the more significant Australian composers of her generation.
Nicole Alexander is an Australian music and television and producer, director, and editor based in Los Angeles. She formerly worked as the director of production and music producer for the Viacom Entertainment Group before becoming the vice president of production, development and talent for 1iota 1iota Studios. Alexander is CEO and director of Hashtag, You're It.
Caitlin Hulcup is an Australian mezzo-soprano, who has performed both in Australia and internationally, particularly in Europe.
Fiora Cutler, better known mononymously as Fiora, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and composer born in Launceston, Tasmania, and based in Los Angeles, California.
The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School is a four-week program of study for young-professional or advanced-student opera singers and repetiteurs, founded by Lisa Gasteen, the Australian opera singer. It takes place in late-Spring and early-Summer in Brisbane, Queensland at venues provided by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. The summer school features a faculty of both Australian and international coaches and teachers. Endorsed by Lyndon Terracini, artistic director of Opera Australia, the summer school program will be held annually, subject to fundraising.
Rex Hobcroft AM was an Australian pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, competition juror and music administrator. He was the first Australian pianist to play the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas in public; he directed both the Tasmanian and New South Wales State Conservatoria of Music; and he co-founded the Sydney International Piano Competition.
Ben Mingay is an Australian actor and singer, perhaps best known for having played Buzz Graham in the series Packed to the Rafters and Rob Duffy in Wonderland. He played the role of Billy in the stage version of Dirty Dancing in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Mingay together with Michael Falzon, Luke Kennedy, and Matt Lee appeared in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2014. In 2015, Mingay joined the cast of soap opera Home and Away in the recurring role of Trystan Powell.
Sophie Armstrong formerly known as Sophie Serafino, is a Canada-based Australian violinist and composer. She is the founder of the Every Woman Foundation.
Titilayo Rachel Adedokun is an American singer (soprano) and beauty queen. She sang in numerous opera roles worldwide and has also recorded and collaborated in several jazz albums.
Beverley Bergen is a New Zealand soprano opera singer and concert performer who was born in Dunedin and began her singing studies while a student at the University of Otago.
Muriel O'Malley, also known by her married name Muriel Roet, was an Australian-born American actress and contralto who had an active performance career in musicals, operas, and concerts from the 1920s through the 1960s. She is best remembered for her work on Broadway; including creating roles in the original productions of two musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein: Grandma Taylor in Allegro (1947) and Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music (1959). She was also a leading performer with the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the New York City Opera. With the latter company she portrayed the role of Celeste in the world premiere of William Grant Still's Troubled Island in 1949. She starred in television films of two operettas; portraying Aurelia Popoff in The Chocolate Soldier on the NBC anthology series Musical Comedy Time in 1950 and Dame Carruthers in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1957.
