About Chloe Lankshear
Soprano Chloe Lankshear has established a versatile career that has seen her feature with some of Australia and Germany’s most acclaimed arts organisations. She delights across many epochs with performances of baroque music, art song, and modern opera, garnering reviews such as '..dazzling; her vocal agility, accuracy, range, breath control, and ornamentation [are] extraordinarily impressive”. 

Chloe was the 2023 First Prize and People's Choice awardee in the Melbourne Philharmonic Oratorio Competition. She was also Pinchgut Opera’s inaugural ‘Taryn Fiebig’ young artist (2021-2023), appearing in their touring recital programs, video productions and recordings, and operatic productions. Chloe sang her Sydney Opera House concert hall debut in 2023 with The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, performing J. S. Bach’s ‘Magnificat’ with Maestro Stephen Layton. She has also featured with The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, The Haydn Ensemble, and Sydney Chamber Choir. In 2021, Chloe premiered and recorded Paul Stanhope’s new major work ‘Requiem’, and in 2024 joined Sydney Chamber Opera for their concert performance of Mary Finsterer’s opera ‘Antarctica’. Chloe has appeared four times at the Adelaide Festival, the first being Neil Armfield’s production of Brett Dean’s opera ‘Hamlet’. 

After moving to Germany at the end of 2023, Chloe quickly established herself as an oratorio soloist of note. In 2025, she sang her debut in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall as a featured soloist performing arias and duets by Vivaldi, Caldara, and Lotti with conductor Klaas Stock and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. In November 2025, Chloe received widespread praise from reviewers of her performance in the Australian Chamber Orchestra's national tour of Cocteau's Circle, the Sydney Morning Herald stating "...Lankshear sang with a pure, richly coloured voice of vivacious flexibility." In 2026 Chloe was a featured soloist with the NDR-Rundfunk Orchester Hannover in their performance of Bach's St. John Passion under the direction of world-leading baroque specialist Richard Egarr. 

Chloe won the soprano position with the NDR-Vokalensemble Hamburg, and will appear with them as a featured soloist at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall throughout the 2025/2026 season.

About Heathcliffe Auchinachie
Heathcliffe Auchinachie is an Australian classical and electric guitarist, currently based in Germany, who has developed a reputation as a bold interpreter of contemporary and canonic classical repertoire, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has collaborated with leading ensembles such as Ensemble Klangrauschen and Studio Musikfabrik, and regularly performs in duo with soprano Chloe Lankshear.

Recent highlights include his engagement in 2025 to tour Fausto Romitelli's work Index of Metals in South-East Asia, including the Singaporean premiere, and Germany. He was also a featured artist in the 2025 Brahms Festival performance of Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître, and in the 2026 WAM festival performance of Rebecca Saunders' work A Visible Trace. In his solo recital earlier this year, Heathcliffe performed across four instruments including a 10-string guitar for his performance of Maurice Ohana's work Cadran Lunaire.

Passionate about contemporary music, Heathcliffe has collaborated with composers such as Kelley Sheehan, Dylan Lardelli, Christine Pan, Brad Gill, and Bernd Redmann, and is engaged to play the German premiere of Pierre Alexander Tremblay's work for solo electric guitar Portrait d'un ami singulier et pluriel in May 2026. He has featured at festivals such as Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, and the PGVIM International Symposium, and was accepted into the 2025 class of world renowned electric guitarist Yaron Deutsch as part of the prestigious Darmstadt Modern Music Summer Festival. 

Since his recent graduation in Masters of Music Performance with Prof. Otto Tolonen at Musikhochschule Lübeck, Heathcliffe has toured with North German opera company Taschen Oper, and will appear in July 2026 with Australia's renowned Elision Ensemble in collaboration with Sydney Chamber Opera's production of Liza Lim's The Orestia.