Mei wah chan

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Australian-Chinese mezzo-soprano Mei Wah Chan graduated from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2022 with the support of various scholarships including the Ellinor Harris Bequest (2019), Murray Ormond Vagg Scholarship (2022) and Grace Durling Encouragement Award (2022). Her love for performing began with the Australian Girls' Choir and she was the proud recipient of their "June Bronhill Encouragement Scholarship" in 2018. After graduating, she began tutoring and conducting with the AGC.

Music education and enrichment is the source of inspiration for Mei Wah’s pursuit of an operatic career. In 2019, she established the vocal and choral program at her local primary school, with the combined choirs performing in their first Eisteddfod in 2022. Since the development of that program, Mei Wah has expanded her skill set through vocal direction and her credits include AMC Theatre’s Firebringer (2022) and the Australian Premier of Alice by Heart with FabNobs Theatre Inc. (2024). She is currently a vocal, violin, viola and piano teacher at secondary schools in the south and south-eastern suburbs of Victoria.

Most recently, Mei Wah produced a concert series titled Songs of Shakes-Queer, in collaboration with the Midsummer Night’s Dream exhibition at Artemisia Gallery & Event Space for the Melbourne Midsumma festival. This celebration of the intersection of queerness and classical music was exemplary of Mei Wah's hopes and ambitions for the future of the classical and operatic industries. Her role credits include Kim in Miss Saigon (Lyrebird Award for Best Actress in a Musical), Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, and Mustardseed in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She continues to feed her love for choral and chamber music through work with Early Music Ensemble e21 led by Stephen Grant, Paul Grabowsky's "Immortal Diamond" in collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and most recently as part of the Sacred Harp Choir in Bullet Heart Club's The Hall at fortyfivedownstairs.