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2009/2010 Young Artist

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David Kelly
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David started piano at ten and 2 years later was accepted into the Specialist Music Programme at Burnside High School, Christchurch.  While there he was a finalist in the National Secondary Schools' Chamber Music Competition, and received an Exhibition Award from the Trinity College Examinations Board.

Spent three years studying Performance Piano at Canterbury University under Diedre Irons, and then privately with Dr. Maurice Till.  Worked as an accompanist at the University of Canterbury in the studios of Vernon Midgley and Dame Malvina Major, and was also involved as pianist for Christchurch City Choir, Christchurch Symphony and NASDA.  Was awarded the Cynthia Magner Scholarship in association with the Dame Malvina Major Foundation.

A 2006 PwC Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist for The NBR New Zealand Opera, David was principal repetiteur for Mozart's The Magic Flute and Donizetti's Don Pasquale as well as playing for many concerts and rehearsals. After graduating David played for the NZSO's Maher #2.

Although contracted to The NBR New Zealand Opera for 2007, he was released in order to pursue an opportunity with the Australian Opera Studio in Perth, Western Australia, where he played for productions of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, La Clemenza di Tito, and Idomeneo, Weill's Dreigroschenoper, Humperdinck's Haensel und Gretel, Chabrier's L'Etoile, and the "triple-bill" of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Stravinsky's Mavra and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine.  After graduating in 2008, David returned to New Zealand to undertake the roles of principal and chorus repetiteur on Eugene Onegin and chorus repetiteur on The Italian Girl in Algiers.

Alongside this David works closely with the Company's emerging and resident artists as a vocal coach and as an accompanist for the many intern concert events undertaken by the Company.