Lyric-Coloratura Soprano Chloe Lankshear is a critically acclaimed performer known for her "..supreme clarity and athletic prowess of singing whenever she grace[s] the stage." Australian born, now based in Germany, Lankshear's high calibre traversal of musical epochs has seen her engaged to sing on some of the world's best stages and with some of Europe and Australia's most prestigious arts organisations. 

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A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Lankshear first established herself professionally as a freelancing artist, appearing in national tours with The Song Company, and solo orchestral engagements with Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Choir, and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. In 2021, her “..extraordinarily impressive vocal agility, accuracy, range, breath control, and ornamentation.." won her the inaugural 'Taryn Fiebig Scholar' young artist operatic position with specialist baroque arts organisation Pinchgut Opera (2021-2023). She toured nationally with the company in their concert programs of works by Monteverdi, and featured in their season productions of Rameau's Platée (directed by Neil Armfield), Charpentier's Médée (directed by Justin Way), and Legrenzi's Giustino (directed by Dean Bryant). Lankshear also sang the title role of Handel's Acis and Galatea in Pinchgut Opera's Adelaide Festival Ukaria Chamber Landscapes concerts and NSW Four Winds Festival (directed by Lindy Hume). 

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​Lankshear has sung in various chamber music festivals around Australia, but has appeared regularly at the internationally acclaimed Adelaide Festival four times, her first engagement being the 2018 Glyndebourne-premiered production of Australian composer Brett Dean's opera Hamlet. With a natural feeling for modern music, Lankshear has performed world premiers of works by Australian composers such as Paul Stanhope, Elliot Gyger, and Alice Chance, and the Australian premiers of works by Michael FInnissy, Howard Skempton, and Sciarrino. In 2024 Lankshear appeared with Sydney Chamber Opera and the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra in their concert performance of Mary Finsterer's opera Antarctica.

 

Early on in her career, Lankshear received recognition for her performance of baroque and early classical repertoire, with comment on her natural flair for ornamentation. She has performed Handel's Messiah on multiple occasions both in Australia and Germany, Mozart's Requiem, and Bach's St John Passion and Magnificat. This recognition would lead to her solo Sydney Opera House concert hall debut performing J. S. Bach’s Magnificat & Ešenvalds' Passion and Resurrection with Maestro Stephen Layton and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Later that year Lankshear's performance of 'Rejoice' from Handel's Messiah, 'Tu del ciel ministro elletto' from Handel's The Triumph of

Time and Truth, and J. S. Bach's Cantata BWV51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen won her First Place & People's Choice

Award in the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Oratorio Competition. 

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Lankshear moved to Germany in 2023 and quickly established a freelance solo career with performances in Hamburg, Hannover, Lübeck, and greater Schleswig-Holstein. At the end of 2023 she won her position in the NDR-Vokalensemble, Hamburg, with chief director Klaas Stock, and has appeared in their season concerts and festival performances. In 2024 Lankshear made her Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall solo debut in a program of Italian Baroque music with Akademie für alte Musik Berlin. The concert was broadcast live by the NDR and her duet movement in Vivaldi's Magnificat, trio movement Lotti's Dixit Dominus, and solo aria in the German premier of Caldara's Gloria are featured on the concert broadcaster ARTE. 

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​Lankshear returned to Australia in 2025 for The Australian Chamber Orchestra's National Tour of 'Cocteau's Circle' directed CIRCA's AD Yaron Lifschitz. She appeared alongside UK's top Operatic/Cabaret Baritone Le Gateau Chocolat for a program of 1920s Parisian music centered around Jean Cocteau's forming of Les Six, their contemporaries, and his close friendship with Edith Piaf. Lankshear received universal critical acclaim for her performances garnering such praise as ​

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"One of the undeniable highlights of the program is Poulenc’s lilting French waltz Les Chemins de l’amour (a favourite encore of Jessye Norman), sung with exquisite taste and tone by soprano Chloe Lankshear"

Limelight Magazine

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"..as for the deliriously wonderful Australian soprano (currently based in Germany) Chloe Lankshear – who delivered every song with perfect French diction, plus vocal agility and breath control to die for – it just felt like both Piaff and Lotte Lenya were watching from the wings and egging her on to sing as stirringly as them in their heyday.  Encore Chloe!" 

ClassikON 

 

'Cocteau's Circle' saw her perform once more on the Sydney Opera House concert hall stage, and make her solo debut in Melbourne's historic Hamer Hall, and Brisbane's QPAC concert hall. 

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Lankshear is returning to the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in 2026 with the NDR-Vokalensemble and Concerto Köln as a featured soloist in their live-broadcasted concert performances of J. S. Bach's 'St John Passion'. 

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