SOPHIE HAMER

British-Australian soprano Sophie Hamer is the 2025 and 2026 recipient of The Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship with Melba Opera Trust, Australia’s premier scholarship program for promising young opera singers and repetiteurs. She grew up in Perth and is now based in Sydney, where she is studying with Australian tenor Glenn Winslade.

In 2024 she sang Ino in the Australian premiere of John Eccles’s Semele (HIP Company). Her concert credits include Angelina (the Plaintiff) in Trial by Jury and soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and the Australian premiere of Goodall’s Invictus: A Passion (all for Perth Symphonic Chorus), as well as Enchanted Encounters: Songs of the Supernatural (West Australian Opera Education).