Michael Lampard is an experienced classical singer, conductor, teacher and composer. Originally from Tasmania, and now based in Melbourne, Michael’s music has been performed by a wide varied of soloists and ensembles including the children’s choir, Bel Canto Australia, the Hobart Orpheus Choir, IHOS Opera, as well as many different ensembles from the University of Tasmania. His first opera ‘Succubus’ was performed by the IHOS Opera Laboratory in Hobart in 2004 conducted by Jean Louis Forestier. His ‘Brass Quintet’ was performed by the brass section of the Rome Opera Festival Orchestra and he has had works performed in Japan, the United States of America and in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and across Tasmania.

Michael studied composition with Douglas Knehans at the University of Tasmania, and under Constantine Koukias at IHOS Opera.

He has also worked as a score editor/consultant and typesetter for many composers and until 2012 ran Wildebeest Press!; a publishing house for emerging Tasmanian composers. His editorial work includes the new performing edition of the Play of Daniel premiered in Hobart in 2012.

Primarily a vocal composer, the majority of his catalogue is songs, choral works and four chamber and a number of children’s operas (Succubus 2004, Magic Mountain 2006, Princess and the Pea 2007, Not Now Darling! 2007, A Remarkable Creation 2010, A Tell-tale Heart 2010, Never Alone 2010, Pinocchio 2011, Once Upon a Time 2012, The Doll 2013). He has also composed music for piano, string quartet, orchestra (including two symphonies), percussion, harp and several other instruments and chamber combinations.

Michael’s works have recently been performed by singers including Sally-Anne Russell, Suzanne Shakespeare, Teresa Dody, Merrin Torpy, Jamie Moffat, Allegra Giagu, Alexandra Oke and Michael himself with pianists including Rhodri Clarke and Pamela Christie. Works have also been performed by ensembles including the Art of Sound Orchestra and the Quartz String Quartet.

Michael is currently working on 2 operatic projects, one that will be performed in 2019 and the other in 2020, as well as a number of song cycles for singers including Helen Koehne and Spencer Chapman, and a Stabat Mater for soprano, tenor, choir and string orchestra.

Catalogue (information about performances and sound recordings added in due course)

Feel free to contact Michael about any of the following works or for more information about works not listed.

More than 150 individual songs for all voice types in English and German.
In 2019 Michael will self publish the first volume of 10 songs for voice and piano, This book will contain songs for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone.

Current Projects

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Set for completion in 2019)
Opera in 2 Acts. Libretto by Jamie Moffat

Stabat Mater (Set for completion in 2019)
Sacred Choral work for Soprano, tenor, choir and string orchestra.

Another Year (Set for completion in 2019)
Chamber Musical. Words and Music by Michael Lampard

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Song Catalogue

Many song cycles. Listed below is list of the cycles Michael self-publishes:

Soprano

Remember/Forget 2015
Poems by Christina Rossetti. 12 minutes (Dedicated to Alexandra Oke)
Version 1: Soprano and Piano.
Premiered November 2015 by Alexandra Oke and Rhodri Clarke for the Music Lover’s Society. Melbourne, Australia
Version 2: Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (2 French Horns, 2 Oboes and Strings)
Premiered March 2016 by Alexandra Oke and the Art of Sound Orchestra conducted by Mario Dobernig at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia.

Emily on Life 2016 (for to Lee Abrahmsen)
Poems by Emily Dickinson. 8 minutes
Three Songs for Soprano and Piano

Two Settings of Edna St. Vincent Millay 2016 (for to Teresa Duddy)
Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Duration 6 minutes.
Two Songs for Soprano and Piano

The Silver Swan 2016 (For Alexandra Oke)
Poem by Orland Gibbons. 3 minutes.
Song for Soprano and Piano
Premiered November 2016 by Alexandra Oke and Pamela Christie at St Stephen’s Church. Richmond, Victoria. Australia

Shakespeare Sonnets 2016 (for Suzanne Shakespeare)
Poems by William Shakespeare. Duration 15 minutes.
Five Songs for Soprano and Piano
Premiered October 2017 by Suzanne Shakespeare and Pamela Christie at St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia .

Sonnet 116 2018 (for Helen Koehne)
Poem by William Shakespeare. Duration 5 minutes.
Song for Soprano and Piano

Mezzo Soprano

The Soul’s Expression 2015 (For Sally-Anne Russell)
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 10 minutes
Version 1: Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Premiered November 2016 by Allegra Gaigu and Pamela Christie at St Stephen’s Church. Richmond, Victoria. Australia
Version 2: Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet
Premiered September 2016 by Sally-Anne Russell and the Quartz String Quartet at the Albury Music Festival, Victoria, Australia.

Life in the Middle (Cabaret Songs) 2015 (For Sally-Anne Russell)
Poems by the composer. 10 minutes
Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano

Chicken or the Egg? 2015 (For Sally-Anne Russell)
Assorted texts. 4 minutes
Version 1: Three light encores for middle voice and piano
Premiered in November 2017 by Sally-Anne Russell at the Hans Vonk Music House in Tasmania
Version 2: Three Lights encores for middle voice, flute, cello and piano.
Premiered in November 2017 by Sally-Anne Russell and members of the ASO in Adelaide, Australia.

Lully 2017
Poem by Walter de la Mare. 3 minutes.
Song for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Premiered October 2017 by Merrin Torpy and Pamela Christie at St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia .

If thou must love me 2017 (dedicated to the memory of Edith Moffat, for Jamie Moffat)
Poem by Elizabeth Browning. 4 minutes.
Song for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Premiered October 2017 by Merrin Torpy and Pamela Christie at St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia .

Tenor

No man is an Island 2015 (For Douglas Kelly)
Poems by John Donne.  14 minutes.
Song Cycle for Tenor and Piano

‘Tis only thinking 2018 (For Spencer Chapman)
Poems by A. E. Housman. 13 minutes.
Song Cycle for Tenor and Piano.

Baritone

Between the Silence 2011
Text by Douglas Mawson. 15 minutes
Six connected songs for baritone and piano.
Premiered by Michael Lampard and Karen Smithies in 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania.

Night, Sleep and the Stars 2013
Poems by Walt Whitman. 15 minutes
Three connected songs for baritone and piano.

The Dark of Time 2014
Poems by Judith Wright. 12 minutes
Song cycle for baritone and piano

Day’s Embers 2015
Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Song Cycle for baritone and piano
Premiered November 2016 by Jamie Moffat and Pamela Christie at St Stephen’s Church. Richmond, Victoria. Australia

Suicide in the Trenches 2016
Poem by Siegfried Sassoon. 4 minutes
Song for Baritone and Piano

When the Long Trick’s Over 2017 (For Jamie Moffat)
Assorted poets. 12 minutes.
Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano
Premiered October 2017 by Jamie Moffat and Pamela Christie at St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia .

So Young and Fair 2018
Poems by James Joyce. 12 minutes.
Song cycle for baritone and piano
Premiere scheduled for August 2018 at the Newcastle Music Festival sung by Michael Lampard with Ross Fiddes at the piano

Multiple Voices

A Thousand Suns and Moons 2018 (For Helen Koehne)
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 15 minutes
Vocal Duets for Soprano and Baritone with Piano.