· Mezzo-soprano with extensive professional experience as an opera principal and concert soloist, available for performance

· Teacher of singing and music theory with more than 20 years experience

· Lecturer in Music and published musicologist.

 

My studio is in Earlwood, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia.

Singing students are welcome from beginner to advanced.

Students have been successfully prepared for AMEB, HSC and tertiary examinations, and for auditions.

I teach singing technique and repertoire from early music to twentieth centuries in song, opera, oratorio and music theatre. I also teach music theory.

I perform both as a soloist, and as part of a duo with pianist Maryleigh Hand. For more information on this duo, please go to Dunstone & Hand Duo on the navigation bar.

 

 

Three students have already been cast in productions for Rockdale Opera Company's 2012 season.

Congratulations to those of my students who competed in eisteddfods and other competitions this year. Special congratulations go to Marisa Panzarin  who was runner-up in the St George Aria competition.

Several of my students have performed in shows this year. Rachael Fullston, Elizabeth Beilharz and Liliane Cooley appeared in Rockdale Opera Company’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. Rachael performed the role of Phyllis, Elizabeth the role of Fleta, and Liliane played a fairy. In Chatswood Musical Society’s production of The Sound of Music Marisa Panzarin performed the role of Sister Berthe.

 This year, Maryleigh Hand and I performed two recitals: ‘Robert, Clara and Johannes: Love and Friendship’ as part of The Music Project concert series at St John’s Anglican Church in Darlinghurst, and ‘Sweeter than Roses—A Musical Bouquet’ at St John’s Uniting Church, Neutral Bay, in aid of Act for Peace.

Dr Prudence E. Dunstone

(Photo by Hilary Cam)

Prudence Dunstone with

pianist  Maryleigh Hand

Prudence E. Dunstone

Singer, Singing Teacher, Musicologist