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Katie Stenzel is a dynamic, coloratura soprano. She
graduated with a Bachelor of Music from QUT in and went on to
complete her Masters of Music Studies at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music.
Katie made her principal mainstage debut with Opera
Queensland as Rosina for both the Brisbane season and regional
Queensland tour of The Barber of Seville, and in 2017 performed
the role of Zorah in Ruddigore. Since joining the company, she
has understudied roles including Kumudha in A Flowering Tree,
Euridice and Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice, Rose Maybud in
Ruddigore, Cunegonde in Candide and Yum Yum in The Mikado. Katie has appeared as a
principal artist at various Opera Queensland events such as Sensory at GOMA, Cloud Song,
and Opera in the Vineyard at Ballandean.

Katie created the role of Loretta for the recording of Peter Rankine and Rod Ainsworth’s new
work, The Crushing: A Gothic Opera. She sang in the Opera Australia chorus for the 2013
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of Carmen. She has also performed as a
featured artist at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Taipei Drama Festival in Taiwan.
In 2018, Katie performed the roles of Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Niece 1 in the
Brisbane Festival/Opera Queensland production of Peter Grimes, and Zerlina in Opera
Queensland’s acclaimed production of Don Giovanni.

Cherin Lee Cherin Lee began playing the violin at four years
old. Cherin is one of the youngest violinists to achieve her Associate
and Licentiate Diplomas in Music; at the age of ten, she was awarded
her AMusA with Distinction in violin, and her LMusA with Distinction
in violin at eleven years old. She was the winner of the English
Family Prize for Young Instrumentalists Competition in 2014

In 2017 Cherin was the concertmaster of the Australian Combined
Schools Music Festival Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor-in-Residence
Benjamin Northey. She is currently the concertmaster of Harvard University’s premier
symphony orchestra, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

After graduating from Somerville House as Dux of the School she received acceptances from
some of the top academic institutions in the world, such as Harvard University, Stanford
University, Columbia University, as well as from top conservatories, the Juilliard School of
Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Cherin is currently a third-year student
at Harvard University, where she is studying English and Pre-Medicine. She is simultaneously
completing a Master of Music in Violin Performance at the New England Conservatory of
Music as part of the Harvard/NEC Dual Degree Program.