Australian soprano Claudia Mackay is currently a member of the Swiss Opera Studio at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), where she studies under the guidance of Claude Eichenberger and is undertaking her second year of the Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance – Opera.

Commencing this September, Claudia will join the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn! (TOBS!) in thei 24/25 Season to perform the role of Barbarina in a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Sébastien Rouland.

Claudia is a graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has received a Master of Music in Opera Performance (2021), a Graduate Diploma in Classical Voice (2019) and a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance (2018).

Claudia has been awarded ‘The Prue Kennard Scholarship’ (2023-2025), ‘The Pacific Opera Growth Scholarship’ (2023), ‘The Forbes Award for Female Singer in the Opera School’ (2022) & ‘The Bud Brown Memorial Scholarship for Merit’ (2020).

In the first half of 2023, Claudia performed frequently as one of 9 Young Artists who were selected as a part of the 2023 Young Artist Program with Sydney’s Pacific Opera Studio.

Claudia’s staged performances include Zerlina in Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’(Pacific Opera Studio), Taumännchen in Humperdinck’s ‘Hänsel & Gretel’ (Berlin Opera Academy’s 2022 Opernfest), Tytania in Britten’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (SydCon x NIDA 2021) directed by Kate Gaul, Muse & Nymph in Cavalli’s ‘Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne’ (Debut with Pinchgut Opera 2021) directed by Mitchell Butel & conducted by Dr Erin Helyard, & Noémie in Massenet’s ‘Cendrillon’ (SydCon 2020) directed by Kate Gaul.

Claudia’s concert performances include soloist for the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s annual concert ‘Last Night of the Proms’, soloist for Mendelssohn’s St Paulus Oratorio (2023), soloist for Paul Carr’s Requiem for an Angel (Australian premiere).