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 guitarist currently based in north Germany, who has developed a reputation as a bold interpreter of contemporary and canonical repertoire, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He performs regularly on the classical, electric, bass and 10-string guitars, and has collaborated with ensembles such as Ensemble Klangrauschen and ELISION ensemble.

Recent highlights include a tour of Fausto Romitelli's work Index of Metals in South-East Asia and Germany with Studio Musikfabrik, the German premiere of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay's 'Portrait d’un ami singulier et pluriel' for electric guitar and live electronics, and festival performances of Rebecca Saunder's work Scar in collaboration with the composer. He also performed with ELISION Ensemble in Sydney Chamber Opera's critically acclaimed 2026 production of The Oresteia by Liza Lim.

Contemporary music forms a significant part of his artistic practice, leading to collaborations with composers such as Rebecca Saunders, Kelley Sheehan, Liza Lim, Pierre Alexander-Tremblay, Dylan Lardelli, Christine Pan, Brad Gill, and Bernd Redmann. He has featured at festivals such as Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, next_generation festival at ZKM in Karlsruhe, and the PGVIM International Symposium.

In 2026 he completed a Masters of Music degree with Otto Tolonen at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany, and studied a Bachelor of Music with Vladimir Gorbach at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 2025 he was a participant at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music in the class of Yaron Deutsch. He has also been a participant in the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation program and a recipient of the Deutschland Stipendium.