About Chloe Lankshear
Chloe Lankshear is an upcoming soprano in Australia, and has featured as a soloist with some of Australia's finest organisations including South Australia State Opera, Pinchgut Opera and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Early in her career, she featured in Pinchgut Opera’s recordings and films as well as their touring concert series and opera productions.

She has been a featured artist at Bendigo Chamber Festival as well as recording with classical guitarist Heathcliffe Auchinachie at Phoenix Central Park Studio. Chloe has premiered new works including Paul Stanhope’s Requiem at City Recital Hall, which she recorded in 2022.

In July 2021 Chloe was named Pinchgut Opera’s inaugural ‘Taryn Fiebig Scholar’ for 2021–23 and appeared in their production of Platée as Clarine. In 2022, Chloe was a featured artist at Bermagui’s Four Winds Festival in the lead role of Galatea for their production of Acis and Galatea. She also made her solo debut with Maestro Anthony Hunt with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO), and Maestro Brett Weymark with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for Mozart’s Requiem, as well as collaborations with other Sydney-based groups including Muffat Collective and Castalia Vocal Consort. In November Chloe was a finalist at the Bel Canto awards and was awarded the Decca prize by Richard Bonynge. At the conclusion of 2022, Chloe performed as Nerine in Pinchgut Opera’s production of Medea.

2023 brings a variety of programs including a return to the CSO for their chamber series, premiering a new work by Connor D’Netto alongside Debussy’s cycle Ariettes oubliées, as well as their June performance of Bach’s St John Passion. Chloe made her Sydney Symphony Orchestra debut performing as a soprano soloist for Bach’s Magnificat in D, and concluded her position as Pinchgut Opera’s Inaugural Taryn Fiebig Scholar in their May production of Giustino.

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.