Trisha Alexandra Crowe is an Australian Classical Pop soprano. She has achieved success as a solo guest artist in concerts with Australian symphony orchestras and in musical theatre.
Biography
Classical pop soprano, Trisha Crowe, blends the technique and tone of classical music with the songs and performance skills of a modern pop diva. She "literally sparkles on stage" and "knows how to connect with her audience." Crowe "creates special moments for audiences. Moments filled with emotion, which uplift or tell stories about relationships in new ways." From the age of four, Crowe took dancing and acting lessons appearing in many concerts and plays. After seeing the magical London production of Phantom of the Opera, she started singing lessons with opera star Rita Hunter CBE and her husband John Thomas. She relates, "They nurtured a real love and passion for communicating through music and song. From then on I seriously pursued classical singing." She completed a Bachelor of Music, studying voice with renowned opera diva Rita Hunter and her husband John Darnley-Thomas and a Bachelor of Arts. Perhaps the most satisfying times in her career have been when singing with orchestras throughout Australia. It was conductor Guy Noble, who first asked her to step onto the Opera House Concert Hall stage and sing with the Sydney Symphony. "When you sing with a large number of extraordinary musicians in the orchestra, " Crowe says, "your whole body vibrates with the sheer volume of sound." She has sung with the Sydney Symphony on a number of occasions including Songs From The Movies Equally important in her life, is her involvement in charity work and music therapy programs including the Light The Night ; Hats Off ; Day of Difference ; Youth Insearch; Red Cross Charity Ball and together with the Sydney Symphony and MBF, she performs annually for The Children's Hospital, Westmead and at the Powerhouse Museum for the mentally and physically disabled.Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.]
Career
Her singing has led to many travels throughout the world from her first professional engagement, Masterpiece – The Music of Andrew Lloyd WebberGreat Hall of the People; to Regent's Park in London, performing Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Twelfth Night and the musical HMS Pinafore; and in Australia, Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver!.
Crowe played the dual roles of Yvonne and Naomi Eisen in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, a musical inspired by Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." The 2007 production by Q Theatre also starred Tyran Parke and Amie McKenna.
The Olivia Newton-John and Friends Charity Gala in 2008, was a special moment for her when Olivia Newton-John joined the audience and gave her a standing ovation; and in a personal note to Crowe, she wrote "breathtaking.. you really have a beautiful voice."
Crowe appeared again with Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Best of Broadway where her performance was described as "nothing short of jaw-dropping". Also featured were Rhonda Burchmore, Todd McKenney and David Hobson.
In 2011, Crowe toured with The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Australia, New Zealand and Asia where it was reported "in the crescendo, Crowe produces a note so high and compelling it seems that the ornate fixtures of the Regent should have cracked against its force." She performed the soprano roles including Love Never Dies and Phantom of the Opera sung by Christine Daae, and also from Requiem Pie Jesu.
In 2001, she performed in the televised Andrew Lloyd Webber tribute concert Masterpiece: Live From the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, together Elaine Paige, Tony Vincent and others. This production which was recorded for CD and DVD release in 2002. She joined Michael Falzon and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, as well as Amanda HarrisonLucy Maunder, Andy Conaghan, Jacqui Dark and others to record I Dreamed A Dream: The Hit Songs Of Broadway for ABC Classics, released on 21 June 2013, in which she sang:
