born in tasmania to a german mother and a romanian...

Born in Tasmania to a Germanmother and aRomanian father,AnastasiaBickelgraduatedwithaBachelorofMusicinClassicalVoice (Advanced Performance) from the QueenslandConservatorium in 2015 and studied a Graduate Certificate ofMusicStudies(Opera)in2016.In2017,Anastasialooksforwardtomoving to Switzerland to commence a two-year position asmezzo-soprano/contralto young artist in the OperAvenirprogramattheTheaterBasel.Anastasia has performed the alto solos in d’Astorga’s StabatMater and Bach’s BWV 4 and 182 with the Queensland BachSociety (2017), Jenkins’ Stabat Mater with Musica AntiquaCollegii (2016),Rossini’sPetiteMesseSolennellewith theNoosaChorale (2016), Vivaldi's GloriawithCanticumat the BrisbaneBaroque Festival (2016),Bach's Matthäus-Passionfor the

Newcastle University Choir (2016), Handel’sMessiah (2015) andHaydn'sTheresienmesse(2016)for the Queensland Bach Society, and Duruflé'sRequiemfor the Cantate Singers(2015). Operatic performances include Florence Pike in Britten’s Albert Herring for theQueensland Conservatorium/ Brisbane Festival (2016) (directed by Bruce Beresford andconductedbyNicholasCleobury),ThirdNymph/Philadel’sSpiritinPurcell'sKingArthurattheBrisbaneBaroqueFestival(2016),ThirdBoyinMozart’sMagicFluteattheQueenslandConservatorium (2016), Hansel in Humperdinck'sHansel and Gretelat the QueenslandConservatorium(2015)(directedbyMichaelGowandconductedbyJohannesFritzsch),andthe Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Mornington Peninsula Summer MusicFestival Academy (2014) and for the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic (2014). At the LisaGasteenNationalOperaSchool,sheperformedscenesfromTchaikovsky'sEugeneOneginasOlgaandWagner'sGötterdämmerungasFlosshilde(2014)andVerdi’sFalstaffasMistressQuickly(2016).AnastasiahasrecentlybeenawardedThirdPrizeintheNationalLiederfest(2017),WagnerSocietyinQueensland’sEncouragementAward(2016)fortheConservatoriumsingerwiththe“bestpotentialforacareerinWagnerandStrauss”andtheDoreenOrd&LyceumClubPrize (2016) for the “bestmeritoriouspostgraduate singer at theConservatorium.”Otherawards include: the MTO Encouragement Grant (Second Prize) at the finals of the MTOGerman-AustralianOperaGrant(2016),theJudges’EncouragementAward(ThirdPrize)atthefinalsoftheDameJoanSutherlandAward(2016),theRadzyminskiFamilyPrizeatthesemis of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition (2013 and 2016), the Alton BuddMemorialPrize(FirstPrize)inMurwillumbah(2016),theprestigiousJoyceCampbellLloydScholarship for Overseas Study at the Queensland Conservatorium (2015), and theinaugural AOAC Judith Ward Lieder Scholarship at the semis of the Australian SingingCompetition(2015).In2014,shewasafinalistintheNationalLiederfestandwinneroftheprizeforBestGermanDiction.In2016,Anastasiawasasemi-finalistandreservefinalistfortheSydneyEisteddfodOperaScholarship,asemi-finalistintheIFACAustralianSingingCompetitionforthethirdtime,afinalist in the Dame Joan Sutherland Award in Noosa and a finalist in theMTO German-AustralianOperaGrant.