Hailed by Cut Common Magazine as “one of the most exciting songstresses in the world,” Australian soprano Yvette Keong is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music at the Manhattan School of Music. This summer, Ms. Keong will be a 2019 Voice Fellow at Music Academy of the West, where she will be performing Katie and covering Ada in Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain.

This season, Ms. Keong performed as Phoebe in The House of Seven Gables by Scott Eyerly at the Manhattan School of Music, and will appear as Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring. In April 2019, she looks forward to making her Carnegie Hall debut as part of the MSM Centennial Gala at Stern Auditorium as a soprano soloist of Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. In culmination of her undergraduate studies, Ms. Keong will appear in recital with pianist Kenneth Merrill, having previously been featured in Warren Jones’ Pianists and Singers recitals. In previous seasons, Ms. Keong was the soprano soloist of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang under the baton of Kent Tritle, and performed in scenes as Rose Maurrant (Street Scene), Norina (Don Pasquale), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas).

Ms. Keong performed as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Berlin Opera Academy in August 2018 as the recipient of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Overseas Music Scholarship, a role she reprised at the Estates Theater in Prague, Czech Republic. In summer 2018, Ms. Keong was also a featured soloist of the Opera Under the Arch summer concert series at Washington Square Park, covered by Spectrum News NY1. She has appeared in articles by Classical Singer Magazine, OperaWire, Cut Common Magazine, and The Sydney Morning Herald.

She has performed in masterclasses with Jane Glover, Hei-Kyung Hong, Martin Katz, Diana Soviero, and Brian Zeger. She has won accolades from the National Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, Sydney Eisteddfod, Brisbane International Youth Music Festival, Northern Beaches Vocal Championships, and was a finalist of the Joan Sutherland Intermediate Memorial Scholarship.

Beyond her accomplishments as a singer within the operatic and concert realms, Ms. Keong also trained for over a decade as a ballerina through the Royal Academy of Dance, and studied piano at the AmusA Associates Diploma level of the Australian Music Examinations Board.