Leah Bell is an Australian Soprano, currently completing her Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under the esteemed Maree Ryan AM, following her recent graduation of Bachelor of Music Performance – Classical Voice, also at the Sydney Conservatorium.
During her studies, Leah has been awarded the Kevin and Margaret Duffy, Bud Brown Memorial, PATIM Music Fund, Patricia Long Music, Greenburg-Gurney Jenson Fund and the Peter Davidson Music Scholarship.
Leah’s recent performance highlights reflect her growing reputation as a dynamic and expressive performer.
A few of these include the Sydney Opera Society Aria Concert, SCM Opera Scenes Concert, SCM Lunchbreak Concert Series, Art Song Concert, Con Lieder Series, Opera’s Heroes and Villains, Croydon Crescendo Concert Series, and Liederfest. She also performed in the Sydney Conservatorium’s Whitacre and Hindson Wind Symphony Concert, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Operatic credits include her performance in Don Giovanni with Concordia Ensemble, and her portrayal of Mrs Waa in Parrwang Lifts the Sky, an all-Australian opera by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO. She is looking forward to taking on the role of Morphée in the upcoming Opera ‘Orphée aux enfers’ – Jacques Offenbach, a collaboration between NIDA and SCM, later this year.
Theatre credits include dual roles of Mrs Hatch and Violet in the stage adaptation of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, Snow White in the original musical ‘Take a Bite’ and the very zany but fun ‘Little Shop of Horrors’.
