Madeleine
Wickham Brown

Madeleine Wickham Brown is an 18 year old Classical and Music Theatre singer, who graduated last year from Mercedes College with a 95.45% ATAR and a 100% Practical Exam WACE result. Madeleine is also a pianist and is currently studying pipe organ to further her love of keyboard instruments.

Madeleine has been very successful in various competitions and Eisteddfods throughout Perth, winning the 2019 North of Perth Eisteddfod Outstanding Junior Vocalist Award. Later, in 2021 she won the North of Perth Eisteddfod Outstanding Senior Vocalist, alongside the Music Theatre Under 18, Classical Under 18 and Recital Open sections. Last year, Madeleine was the Fremantle Eisteddfod Overall Best Vocalist including: Classical Under 18, Classical Open, Art song under 18, Folk Song Open, and Lieder Open. She also won the North of Perth Eisteddfod Music Theatre/ Operetta Open First Place and was the recipient of the Royal Overseas League Award for Young Singers aged 15-21 First Prize.

Madeleine started her vocal music education through choir, and has been a part of Australia’s most prestigious choirs such as Gondwana Voices and Chorale, John Septimus Roe Chapel Choir, West Australian Young Voices, St George’s Girls Choir and Naya Chorale. She is currently a member of Giovanni Consort and a Lay Clerk at Christ Church Claremont. Whilst with Gondwana Voices, Madeleine toured both nationally and internationally with the choir, the highlight being a sold-out performance of Brett Dean’s ‘Vexations and Devotions’ conducted by Vladimir Jurowsky at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Madeleine has recorded music by Australian composer Frederick Septimus Kelly for Toccata Classics, on a CD to be released this year. She has also contributed backing vocals to a CD of sacred songs.

As well as this Madeleine has also been in the West Australian Opera children’s chorus for productions such as Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), The Nightingale (Raminsh), and Koolbardi Wer Wardong (Ghouse, Williams).

Madeleine has performed in many staged productions in principal roles, most recently as ‘Miss Hannigan’ in ‘Annie’ at the Regal Theatre, and as the dramatic soprano role of ‘Theseus’s Mother’ in the Australian premiere of Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’.

Currently, Madeleine is a Young Artist with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with an upcoming performance in June of this year. Madeleine will also be performing at the ATAR Perspectives Concert in the Perth Concert Hall, and is the alto soloist in the Vivaldi Gloria with Methodist Ladies College and Christchurch Grammar School.

Madeleine hopes to pursue an operatic career in the future, and is preparing to study a Bachelor of Classical Voice at the Royal Northern College of Music later this year.

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