Joshua Salter

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Born in Port Macquarie and now residing in Sydney, Joshua holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Newcastle, majoring in voice. He has performed with Co-Opera (Adelaide), Sydney Independent Opera, Pacific Opera (as a Young Artist), Newcastle Festival Opera, Opera Hunter, and Cantillation.

Joshua's roles have included Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte in Adelaide and Melbourne (Co-Opera), Papageno (Opera Laboratory-Sydney) and Schaunard in La Boheme (Opera Projects). He also played Masetto in Don Giovanni (Sydney Independent Opera), and Giuseppe in The Gondoliers (Newcastle Festival Opera). Other principal roles have been Escamillo (Carmen) Sprecher (The Magic Flute) and Readymoney Matt (The Threepenny Opera).

Joshua attended the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School on scholarship in 2016, performing the roles of Orfeo (Orfeo ed Eurydice-Gluck), Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld-Offenbach) and Dr Cajus (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor-Nicolai).

In competitions, Joshua has excelled; he was delighted to be named as a Finalist in the German-Australian Opera Grant Wiesbaden (Encouragement Grant), and also finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Awards.

Recent performance highlights include the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation Rossini Gala, Music at Manly's Concert Season, and 'An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan ' with Stuart Maunder and the Opera and Arts Support Group.

Joshua has performed many concerts as Baritone soloist including Mozart's Requiem K.626 with the Newcastle University Choir, Faure’s Requiem for the Illawarra Choral Society and most recently Handel's Messiah for Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.