Concert with Tania de Jong AM, Hartley Newnham & Nicholas Routley in Montecollum

Don't miss an inspiring concert with

Tania de Jong AM (Soprano), Hartley Newnham (Countertenor) & Nicholas Routley (Pianist)

Glorious songs and duets by composers including Puccini, Purcell, Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Schubert and Gershwin. The event will also include supper.

“...gorgeous, golden-voiced Tania de Jong is in fine form...what a talent.” Opera Magazine

PRICE: $45 General, $35 Concession (70 min concert and supper with the artists)

DATE/TIME: Friday 21 February from 7:00pm - 9:30pm

LOCATION: Montecollum, NSW. Full address provided on booking.

About the performers:

Tania de Jong AM (Soprano)

Tania de Jong AM is an acclaimed soprano who presents magical performances across classical, music theatre, contemporary, sacred, spiritual and world genres. She also MCs and presents keynote speeches, voice workshops, immersive sound experiences and uses voice as a healing modality. She creates heartfelt music and performances for meditation and prayer, tribute, reflection, inspiration and illumination.

Tania is an award-winning social entrepreneur, creative innovation leader, global speaker and spiritual journeywoman. She is the Founder of four charities, Mind Medicine Australia, Umbrella Foundation, The Song Room and Creativity Australia and the With One Voice program, and Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global, Dimension5, Pot-Pourri and MTA Entertainment & Events.

Opera Magazine described Tania as “…. gorgeous, golden-voiced and theatrical…what a talent.” Tania has studied in Australia, UK and Italy with the world’s leading vocal coaches. She performed with the Victoria State Opera and has appeared as a soloist in operas and musicals and with orchestras, festivals, corporate, private and special events globally.

Tania’s latest charity is Umbrella Foundation which is committed to telling stories that matter through the innovative use of music, theatre and other artforms, raising consciousness and inspiring generosity, diversity, inclusion, harmony and compassion. Umbrella Foundation presented the world premiere of Driftwood - The Musical recently and will present further seasons in future.

Her internationally renowned singing group Pot-Pourri have released 7 albums and performed in over 40 countries at major festivals, concert halls and special events including with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Centre in Korea, Hannover World Expo in Germany, Macau Concert Hall, tours of China, USA, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy and more.

Tania has released 6 solo albums, Soundsations, Heaven on Earth, Flying Free and The Breezes at Dawn have Secrets to Tell, Solitary Harmony and Awakening for the Peaceful Soul.  Tania’s mission is to change the world, one voice at a time!

Hartley Newnham (Countertenor)

Toowoomba bor, Hartley studied piano with Max Olding while completing an Arts/Music degree at UQ. He was Director of Music at the Geelong College before undertaking further piano study in Paris. It was at this time he began studying singing in London which led to his becoming Australia's pioneer counter tenor.

He has performed many concerts in France, including several at the palaces of Versailles and Vincennes, and broadcast for Radio France. He sang there with William Christie, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Trevor Pinnock. In London he has given three Wigmore Hall recitals and broadcast for the BBC.

In Melbourne he was a founding member of the leading early music ensemble La Romanesca performing and recording a huge body of mediaeval and renaissance music in the romance languages. He also began working regularly in concert with Nicholas Routley (piano) and they have premiered many new works by leading Australian composers such as Ross Edwards, Anne Boyd, Gerald Glynn and Clare Maclean. He has sung solo roles with Victorian Opera, in Monteverdi and contemporary works, and has appeared in most of Australia's leading festivals.

He has sung the solo alto roles in Bach's Passions & Handel's Messiah, frequently with the Sydney Chamber Choir, and has appeared in Hong Kong as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. He has sung Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire in both the Sydney & Melbourne Festivals as the world's only male performer.

In total he sings ten centuries of western music and has presented three Millennium Series in Victoria with the help of many leading musicians. In recent years he has composed music himself for theatre and has written song cycles to texts of Robert Gray (Certain Things) and Dorothy Porter (Crete). He now lives at Rathdowney Qld. where he presents house recitals and he has been examining for the AMEB.

Nicholas Routley (Pianist)

Nicholas Routley has had a broad career in music, as pianist, conductor, and composer. He was for many years a lecturer and then Professor in the  Faculty of Music at the University of Sydney. His pupils, now spread across many continents as well as within Australia, occupy prestigious positions and many have already achieved international renown.

Nicholas studied piano with the renowned teacher Peter Feuchtwanger (the teacher of many great pianists, among them Martha Agerich and Shura Cherkassky) in  London. Since then he has specialised in chamber music. Nicholas has toured internationally, having twice given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall. He has also played at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, and the Cultural Centre in Hong Kong.

Since moving to the Northern Rivers in 2009 he has founded, and directs, the chamber choir Vox Caldera. Nicholas works as a pianist with with Gaynor Morgan, Emilie Lemasson, Bridget Crouch and Thomas Zachary among others. He is currently president of the Byron Music Society, an organisation which promotes concerts by outstanding musicians of the region and across Australia. He is engaged on the composition of three operas on the subject of the Indian epic, Mahabharata.