Janine Harris is a versatile performer based in Sydney. A recipient of the Helpmann Family
Award, Helen Myers Scholarship and a Henderson Travelling Scholarship in 2022, and of the
Helpmann Family Award and the John Holt Todd and Florence Todd Scholarship in 2021,
she is presently studying opera under the tutelage of Donna Balson at the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music. Janine was winner of the Oratorio prize in last year’s Sydney
Eisteddfod.

Having spent some years freelancing in top professional ensembles in London Janine
returned to Australia in 2020 to take up the position of Ensemble Artist with The Song
Company. This opportunity has seen her perform to critical acclaim across repertoire from
the 13th C to the present day – notably receiving praise for “her exceptional range,
precision, clarity and even tone” [Limelight Magazine, April 2021] performing motets of the
Renaissance from original manuscripts, and “impeccable dramatisation… hilariously
exemplified” [Theatre Travels, March 2021] in a dramatic staging of music by living
American composer Juliana Hall.

In October Janine will perform the role of Third Lady in the Conservatorium’s co-production with NIDA of Die Zauberflöte, following her operatic debut earlier this year as Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro with The Co-operative. She has also performed as a soloist with the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence, the SCM’s Early Music Ensemble, the Chandos Choir and Portsmouth Chorale in the UK, and with the Choirs of St James King St and St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, the Australian Brandenburg Choir and Cantillation.