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"...Chloe Lankshear is surely a show stopper."
- Limelight Magazine

2022

Featured Artist | Bendigo Chamber Festival
February: 2nd - 6th
Joining star artists such as Amir Farid and David Elton, Lankshear will join Bendigo Chamber Music for it's third incarnation singing works by Vivaldi, Strauss, and Messiaen.

Song Company Close Up Series | 'Becoming Beatrix'
Postponed
Francis Greep and Chloe Lankshear present a program telling the story of world famous author Beatrix Potter. Potter's isolated childhood, early adulthood, and growth into the woman who founded the National Trust, is told through an eclectic program featuring Schumann's 'Frauenliebe und Leben' , Carter, Crumb, Copland, Debussy, Whitwell, and Kats-Chernin.

Soprano soloist with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Mozart's 'Requiem'
March: 19th
Lankshear joins Sydney Philharmonia Choir in their performance of Mozart's 'Requiem' and other works.

Adelaide Festival | Resonance: Chamber Music with Pinchgut Opera
March: 11th - 14th
Pinchgut Opera presents a range pf programs at Adelaide Festival in stunning location, Ukaria.
Lankshear sings the title role in their performance of Handel's 'Acis & Galatea'.

Spiritual Forrest | Pinchgut Opera touring season
April: 2nd & 3rd
The Spiritual Forest is drawn from Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (1641), his great anthology of liturgical works composed during his career in Venice. It was to be the last collection of Monteverdi’s music published in his lifetime, and represents the final flowering of his great genius.

Soprano soloist with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus | Faure's 'Requiem'
March: 26th
Lankshear joins Warren Trevellyan-Jones and Baritone Stephen Walsh in MSO Chorus' inaugural 2022 performance of Faure's beloved Requiem, featuring musicians from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Song Company | 'Arms of Love'
August
Song Company and choreographer-dancer Thomas E. S. Kelly reunite to present Buxtehude's 'Membra Jesu Nostri' and brand new commission 'I pray the Sea' by Australian Composer Chris Williams, based on text from 'No friend bbut the mountains' by B. Boochani.

Canberra Symphony Orchestra | Messiah
July: 8th - 9th
Lankshear joins Tobias Cole, Andrew Goodwin, and Adrian Tamburini in CSO's July performance of Handel's 'Messiah'.

Musica Viva Tour with Pinchgut Opera | October
TBA
Lankshear presents a program of Purcellian delights with Erin Helyard, Anton Baba, and Simon Martyn-Ellis.

Australian Chamber Orchestra | 'The Crowd & I' touring season
August
Richard Tognetti directs the ACO live on stage alongside striking imagery and footage captured from across the globe, including vast refugee camps, epic gatherings in the name of religion, and secular festivals where hedonism rules. Joy holds hands with sorrow. The Individual is inseparable from The Crowd.

Muffat Collective's 'Love From Paris |
9th October
One of Australia’s most talented sopranos and rising stars, Chloe Lankshear joins us for a declamation of passionate love songs from mid eighteenth-century France. Flirting with the limits of our human desire, these rarely performed works frenetically exchange love for hate, despair for joy. Through an uninterrupted pastiche of instrumental trios and dramatic cantatas we celebrate the beautiful paradox of love.

Pinchgut Opera | 'Women of the Pieta'
September: 10th - 11th
This sublime program, showcasing music by Vivaldi and others, features the beloved Australian soprano Miriam Allan, who most recently drew international acclaim after her stellar performance at Prince Phillip’s funeral in London in 2021. Miriam will be joined by a glorious chorus of twelve women and an ensemble of expert orchestral players featuring the female talent of the Orchestra of the Antipodes.

Pinchgut Opera | 'Médée'
December
Lankshear joins Pinchgut Opera as 'Nerine' for their 2022 December opera.
Originally scheduled in Pinchgut Opera’s 2020 season, the greatest opera of the French Baroque era finally takes the stage in 2022. Médée is high drama and emotion: French tragédie lyrique in its most classic form. The sorceress Médée is driven by desperation and the abandonment of her lover Jason to do the unthinkable, and ultimately murder her own children.