Madeleine Dyer

Madeleine grew up in Sheffield, Tasmania and began piano lessons with her grandma at age 6. She quickly discovered a passion for music and began singing lessons at age 10. She competed regularly in local Eisteddfods and undertook AMEB exams in piano and voice. She completed her AmusA in piano in 2012. 

After high school, Madeleine went to Italy for a year of cultural exchange. She learnt Italian, studied piano in Milan and had some voice lessons in the Italian opera style Bel Canto (meaning beautiful voice).

After Italy she moved to Melbourne to study piano at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Australian pianist Ronald Farren Price. Later transferring her degree back to Hobart to complete her Bachelor of Music in classical voice, she graduated in 2018.

Since graduating Madeleine discovered a passion for music pedagogy, community singing and choral conducting. She has a private music teaching studio where she teaches around 40 students in voice, piano and theory. Madeleine has training in the Australian music education program: Encore. The system teaches a holistic approach to music, focused on music as a language and how your whole body, mind and voice can be used to read, create and interpret music. She encourages creativity and joy in lessons and believes anyone at any age can learn.

Her interest as a choral director stemmed from a year working back home in Sheffield where she was asked to assist the local choir, the Kentish Singers. This sparked her decision to transfer to Hobart and specialise in voice to further her training. Over the past five years, Madeleine has increased her profile as prominent choral conductor in Hobart. She regularly attends training seminars in Melbourne with ACCET (Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training) and has participated in TSO conducting workshops. In 2022, Madeleine took over the role of Director of Music for Choral Productions Tasmania (CPT) from founder, Margot Lampkin. In this position she oversees managing the rehearsals, vocal training, learning, and concerts for The Southern Voices based in Kingston and The Lincoln Singers based in Lindisfarne. She conducts their concerts and regularly seeks to collaborate with community and professional musicians and soloists. The two choirs perform regularly as one massed choir and prepare a range of repertoire from jazz and contemporary, music theatre, folk songs to classical major works such as their recent performance of Mozart’s Requiem with full orchestra and soloists in March, 2024.

Madeleine was made Director of Music of Hobart Orpheus Choir in 2023. The choir performs predominantly classical repertoire, with recent performances of John Rutter Gloria and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia. Having begun working with the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra as a repetiteur in 2017, she was made the conductor of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra Youth Chorale for singers aged 12-25 in 2023 and remains in that position today.

Madeleine performs regularly as a classical soprano and chorister for local musical events. Her recent credits as a soprano include Andrew Lloyd Webber Requiem, Handel The Triumph of Time and Truth, Mozart Requiem. She is a regular performer with Allegri Ensemble, and a member of Hobart’s new vocal chamber octet: Sonus Lux.

Madeleine is passionate about making music accessible to anyone. Her choirs are non-auditioned and require only a love for music and respect for one-another. Madeleine’s goal is to empower and encourage community musical groups to strive for excellence through effective training, management and direction. Her plans for future concerts vary across many genres and collaborations with other communitymusic groups around Hobart.