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Jenny Wollerman soprano Jenny Wollerman is one of New Zealand’s best known sopranos and is Senior Lecturer in Classical Voice at Victoria University’s NZ School of Music. After studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, then Banff Centre, Canada and Britten-Pears School in England, she returned to pursue her career in Australasia. A soloist with the all the major organisations in New Zealand, Australian performances have included Lutoslawski’s ‘Chantefleurs et Chantefables’ with the Tasmanian Symphony and Ravel’s ‘Shéhérazade’ song cycle with the West Australian and Adelaide Symphony orchestras. She is noted for her expressive interpretations of new and less familiar works and has given many performances of works by New Zealand composers. In 2014 she was soloist for Anthony Ritchie’s ‘Stations’: Symphony No. 4 with the Christchurch Symphony, the recording of which was nominated for MusicWeb International’s 2015 ‘Recording of the Year’. Other recent performances include Villa-Lobos’s ‘Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5’ at the 2017 Adam Chamber Music Festival, ‘Fragments from Wozzeck’ with the Auckland Philharmonia, Ross Harris’s ‘The Floating Bride’ with NZ Symphony Orchestra, Jenny McLeod’s opera ‘Hohepa’ for NZ Opera and NZ Festival, and Karl Jenkins’ ‘Cantata Memoria’. ‘Between Darkness and Light’, her CD with Michael Houstoun, has featured on the Air New Zealand in-flight play list, and a new recording of song cycles by Ross Harris and Vincent O’Sullivan, Making Light of Time, was released by Atoll in 2017. Jarvis Dams baritone Originally from Belgium, Jarvis has lived in New Zealand for 18 years. A 2014 - 2015 NZ Opera Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist. Jarvis holds a Master of Music and Bachelor’s degree from The University of Waikato and was a recipient of the University of Waikato Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship for performance and leadership. Jarvis has also been very successful in competitions, in 2016 he was selected as a finalist in the IFAC Australian Singing Competition and in 2017 was the winner of the New Zealand Aria Competition in Rotorua. Jarvis was also selected as one of six singers to be a part of the inaugural Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Development Programme for promising young singers and gratefully acknowledges their support. 21