Loris Synan OAM
Diploma in Music (Melbourne)
Classical Voice Coordinator
Email: Loris.Synan@monash.edu
Phone: (03) 9905 3813
Fax: (03) 9905 3241
Location: Room 211, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus
Biography
After graduating from the University of Melbourne Loris Synan immediately began her professional singing career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, appearing in concerts with their Symphony Orchestras throughout Australia, giving radio recitals and appearing in the leading roles of their first television operas, Il Tabarro and The Consul in 1962.In 1963 Ms Synan left for Europe and the United Kingdom and became the soloist at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London for fifteen months. Her career developed with concerts, recitals and operatic performances including St. Pancras Art's Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the Scottish National Opera. She returned to Australia in 1967 working extensively for the ABC, opera companies and other music bodies in all states and in New Zealand.
In 1977 Loris Synan undertook a tour of North America, Europe and the UK. In 1979 Ms. Synan returned to Europe to represent Australia at the 10th Zagreb Biennale Festival of Contemporary Music. She appeared in other concerts in Yugoslavia and recorded for Radio Belgrade promoting works of Australian Composers, especially Keith Humble and Felix Werder.
In the 1980s her career continued with appearances at the Perth Festival, the ABC Gold Series, radio broadcasts and concerts.
Ms Synan has performed with a wide range of conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Divall, Sir Bernard Heinze, Hirouki Iwaki, Sir John Pritchard and Josef Kripps.
Loris Synan has made a major contribution in music education and the teaching of singing. She has taught at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne since 1975 and the Victorian College of the Arts since 1980.
In 1996 Ms Synan was awarded a Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study and observe breathing techniques in Scandinavia and Germany. Whilst in Stockholm she was invited to give a Seminar at the famous Huddinge Hospital Karolinska Institute.
In September 1996, Loris Synan was nominated by her Swedish Colleges to be the first Australian invited to join the distinguished CoMeT (Collegium of Medicorum et Teatri) and attended their Congress in Paris in 1997. In 1998 Ms Synan gave workshops for the Australian Voice Association International Conference and in 1998 spent three months in America at various institutions and attending the CoMeT Congress in Aspen. She also gave a Seminar for the National Voice Centre in Sydney and workshops in Singapore.
2006 was highlighted by an invitation to work with students of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK on aspects of Breathing Techniques and their application for singers. She has been invited to lecture at the Royal Northern in 2009. She is currently working on aspects of release and relaxation for Performance Anxiety.
In June Loris Synan received an Order of Australia in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours for Service to Music.