Kiandra Howarth

Australian soprano Kiandra Howarth is a graduate of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, where she completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2010. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Young Artist with both Opera Queensland and Opera Australia, making her international debut in 2012 as Norina in Don Pasquale in Tokyo. Later that year, she undertook a year of intensive study at Mozarteum University Salzburg, performing the role of the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro. During this period, she also made her Italian debut as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In the summer of 2013, she joined the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, where her appearances included Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Der Friedensbote in Rienzi, and Voce dal Cielo in Don Carlos.