Gemma Nha

Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where she received a Bachelor of Arts Gesang (Honours) under the tutelage of Peter Edelmann. She is currently completing a Master of Music in Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School, studying with Darrell Babidge as a Toulmin Scholar (2022-2023) and a Kovner Fellow (2023-2024). In the 24/25 season, Gemma will be a first year soprano at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center. 

In 2023, Gemma was the Liederkranz Foundation Second Prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder/Song Competition and awarded an Encouragement Award at the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition. In 2022 she was awarded the Margreta Elkins Encouragement Award at the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation Bel Canto Award. Gemma was a 2020 finalist of the Lotte Lenya Competition and contributed to the Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook. She has previously seen success at The Sydney Eisteddfod, placing first in French Song, Lieder, and Art Song (16-20), as well as Musical Theatre Vocal Duets and Song from a Musical/Musical Theatre (18 & over).

A graduate of The McDonald College Performing Arts School with the Principal’s Scholarship and the Young Actors at Strasberg program at The Lee Strasberg Film and Theater Institute in New York, Gemma has pursued performing arts since the age of eleven and began her classical singing journey at seventeen with Dr. Rowena Cowley at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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