Cheryl Pickering - Artistic Director, Various People Inc

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Cheryl is a director, performer and singing teacher.

For Various People Inc Cheryl has directed Vesalius: a Requiem at RIAus, listed in The Adelaide Advertiser Top Ten Shows for 2010, and '60 Minute Opera' versions of Hansel & Gretel and Madam Butterfly for the State Opera Studio. For OperaTu, a partnership between the State Opera of South Australia and Tutti Arts, Cheryl directed the acclaimed choral theatre production The Shouting Fence in the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Cheryl was deviser and writer for Heartsong, a musical installation for Arts in Health at the Flinders Medical Centre and the Royal Institute of Australia, and wrote and produced Stories Behind the Stones, a promenade performance in West Terrace Cemetery for History Week SA 2010. Recent shows have included a new version of The Magic Flute for OperaTu and a '60 Minute Opera' version of Carmen for the State Opera of South Australia.

Cheryl has extensive performing experience in opera, oratorio and recital, within Australia and in the United Kingdom. She has performed at the Bath International Festival, the Tate Gallery St Ives Festival, the South Bank Centre, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Greenwich Maritime Museum, with the Lindsay Quartet and for English National Opera's Studio Night series. Cheryl was a founding member of the acclaimed a cappella group The Shout, performing extensively across the UK and appearing in Because I Sing on Channel 4 Television and on their CD, On Arrival.

Cheryl performs regularly in Adelaide. She was the vocal adjudicator for the 2008 Adelaide Eisteddfod, and is a highly regarded singing teacher. Her students have been major prize-winners in vocal competitions and include professional performers.

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