Steven Hodgson (Artistic Director) joined The Consort of Melbourne as Assistant Director in 2014 under the mentorship of Warren Trevelyan-Jones and Peter Tregear and was appointed Artistic Director of the group in 2016.

He completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2004, studying composition with Stuart Greenbaum, Brenton Broadstock and Brett Dean and voice with Stephen Grant. Most recently, he completed the Kurt Thomas Cursus at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory, specialising in chamber choir repertoire.

A committed vocalist, choral conductor and composer, Steven performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble member with the Astra Choir, e21 and the Australian Chamber Choir. He is also the Head of Publishing for the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Katherine Norman is a Soprano with over 20 years’ experience, including five European Concert Tours, several recordings and numerous live concert broadcasts for ABC Classic FM.

An Early Sacred & Bach specialist whose repertoire also includes modern composition, Katherine is an accomplished Soloist & blended ensemble singer.

At University, Katherine studied voice with Vivienne Hamilton & Steven Grant at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music. Katherine continues her vocal development with Michael Fulcher. Career Highlights include Soprano Soloist for the much-loved and vocally demanding Allegri Miserere, Bach St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Vivaldi Vespers, Hodgson Lamentations (World Premiere), Homophonic! RESPECT, Taylor Mac’s 24 Hour Concert, Deborah Cheetham's Eumeralla (World Premiere), Meta Cohen “Swerve” & “Caedo” (both World Premieres), and many Melbourne Festivals.

Notable collaborations have included performances with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva, The Tallis Scholars, The Rolling Stones, Taylor Mac, Siobhán Stagg, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Stephen Layton, Jeremy Summerly, Marshall McGuire, Plexus, Genesis Baroque, Miranda Hill, Katie Yap, Meta Cohen, Joe Twist, Louise Trewartha, Wally Gunn & Deborah Cheetham AO.

Katherine regularly performs in Melbourne, most frequently as Principal Soprano with the Consort of Melbourne since 2009 and was a guest artist for the St James King St (Sydney) European concert tour, performing in such distinguished venues as Westminster Abbey and Notre Dame.

Katherine is also Secretary of the Board of the Consort of Melbourne and a former Lecturer for Venue Management School Australasia.

Alongside venue management, Katherine is a Biochemistry Graduate from the University of Melbourne. Katherine is an LGBT+ advocate and mentor. She is also passionate about Equity, with a particular focus on, LGBT+, Gender Diversity, First Nations and Refugees. She’s also recorded podcast for 3MBS “Beyond the Stage” and “She Inspires Me”.

When she is at home, Katherine and her wife enjoy: Artisanal home produce (e.g. homebrew, salami, prosciutto, cheese, curing and smoking bacon etc), planning trips in their VW Van and doting on their Wheaten Terrier dogs, Maggie & Bertie.

For more info, visit: www.katherinenorman.com.au

Kristy Biber has been singing in choirs in Melbourne for over 15 years. Her love of choral singing began in the Trinity College Choir at the University of Melbourne where she had the opportunity to be part of the recording of five albums for ABC Classics as well as tours to Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, USA, Germany and the UK.

Kristy is a founding member of the Consort of Melbourne and Polyphonic Voices, and has collaborated with artists such as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Rolling Stones, the Hilltop Hoods, Patti LuPone, and Deborah Cheetham. She has also had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Eric Whitacre, Stephen Layton and Peter Phillips.

She is the Leading Musician at St Paul’s Cathedral and has been singing with the Cathedral Choir since the introduction of women’s voices in 2016.

In 2019 she toured Sweden with new vocal group the Melbourne Octet and looks forward to more touring soon!

When not singing with choirs, Kristy spends her time singing with families and small children in her day job as a Registered Music Therapist.

Countertenor Alex Ritter is an in-demand chamber singer, chorister, and choral soloist. His love of ensemble singing began as a member of the Australian Boys Choir, and then only grew following his time in The Vocal Consort and the National Youth Choir of Australia. He now maintains a busy performing schedule as a member of some of Melbourne’s premier vocal ensembles, The Consort of Melbourne, Alta Collective, Fiore, and Polyphonic Voices, and is a choral scholar at St John’s Anglican Church Camberwell. As a soloist, Alex has featured in works such as Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion. Although choral music is his first love, Alex enjoys stretching his musical horizons, performing with his award-winning a cappella jazz quintet Burgundy Blue and indie rock-funk quartet Tracksuit Larry. Outside of his musical pursuits, Alex is undertaking a PhD in dark matter particle physics at the University of Melbourne.

Hannah has been a member of the Consort of Melbourne since 2015.

Her singing career spans classical, pop, musical theatre and jazz. She has performed with a number of vocal ensembles, including Gloriana, Vox Angelica, Luminescence and e21, and has worked with directors such as Deborah Cheetham, Erin Helyard, Roland Peelman, Graham Abbott and Benjamin Northey. She has also appeared for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Plexus and Musica Viva.

Hannah has featured in a number of world premiere works, including as the narrator in Sue Westhorp’s award-winning St John Passion and the alto soloist in Kym Dillon’s cantata A

Righteousness from God. She has been the recipient of multiple Lyrebird and Music Theatre Guild awards and nominations for leading theatre roles.

Hannah is trained in piano and flute as well as voice. She sings regularly at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Box Hill, co-coordinating the music and worship programs. She also has a corporate career as a communications executive.

Jenny is an alto with more than twenty five years of choral experience with chamber ensembles including the New Zealand Youth Choir, Voices New Zealand, Ensemble Gombert, the Stanford Chamber Chorale and the Consort of Melbourne. She has also appeared as a soloist in works such as Bach's St John Passion and Magnificat and Durufle's Requiem. Jenny directs the Old Cathedral Voices which sings every Sunday morning at St James Old Cathedral, West Melbourne.

Jenny's has a PhD in business from Stanford University and her day job she is the Dean of the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne.

An experienced ensemble singer and pianist, Robin has worked with some of the country's pre-eminent vocal groups. He cut his teeth working for a number of years as a core member of the acclaimed Adelaide Chamber Singers under Carl Crossin OAM, with highlights including taking home the coveted “Choir of the World” Pavarotti trophy at Llangollen, Wales and the "Musica Sacra a Roma" prize in 2013. Since moving to Melbourne, he has performed with Polyphonic Voices and Vox Plexus, and forms part of five-voice jazz/folk a cappella outfit, Thursday's Child. He has performed back-up vocals for artists including the Hilltop Hoods and Patti LuPone.

In Adelaide, he co-conducted the Young Adelaide Voices male voice choir and Cantamus choir. As an accompanist, he has played for Conservatorium students, choirs, local productions and worked as a pianist and member of the artistic staff of Gondwana National Choral School. In 2015 he was recipient of the Geoffrey Parsons Award, Australia’s premier award for accompanying.

Tenor Timothy Reynolds enjoys performing a broad range of styles as both a soloist and ensemble member, recently joining The Song Company as their principal tenor. As soloist he has appeared with some of Australia’s premier groups including Pinchgut Opera, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Victorian Opera, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Specialising in early music, Timothy has worked with The Bach Akademie Australia, Ludovico’s Band and the Adelaide Baroque Orchestra, and frequently performs with St John’s Southgate Bach Cantata program.

With a strong interest in contemporary music, Timothy’s performances include Brett Dean’s The Last Days of Socrates and Elliot Carter’s What Next. Internationally, Timothy performed with the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Bach Akademie Stuttgart and understudied a number of roles with Oper Stuttgart.

At home in Melbourne/Naarm, he is a principle and founding member of both The Consort of Melbourne and The Melbourne Octet, and is frequently seen as a concert and oratorio soloist.

Lachlan McDonald is a Melbourne-based baritone, composer, and conductor. Under the tutelage of Stephen Grant, Lachlan completed his Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne in 2017, majoring in classical voice. An experienced ensemble singer, Lachlan is a frequent performer in many of Australia’s finest vocal ensembles, including The Consort of Melbourne, Fiore Chamber, and Polyphonic Voices. Lachlan is in high demand as a freelance singer and soloist, with solo highlights including Haydn’s ‘Dixit Dominus’, and Bach’s ‘Mass in A major’. As a conductor, Lachlan trained under Michael Fulcher, and was the founding director of Fiore Chamber, and The Trinity Singers. Since 2018, he has held the post of Director of Music at St John’s Anglican Church, East Malvern. Lachlan was the conductor of the Monash University Choral Society from 2021-23, with Antonín Dvořák’s ‘Stabat Mater’ amongst the works Lachlan conducted. Lachlan was the guest conductor for the National Youth Choir of Australia’s 2021 Melbourne season. After coming through the Australian Boys Choir as a boy chorister, Lachlan was on the music staff at the choir from 2015-2021, holding many posts, including Teacher-in-charge of the Cambiata training group. As a composer, Lachlan specialises in vocal music (both art song and choral). Lachlan was awarded first place in the 2020 Voyces Aspire Choral Composition Competition award for his piece ‘Dormi, Jesu!’, and was awarded second place in the 2019 Archbishop’s Prize for New Composers, from St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, for his piece ‘Animal Nativity’. His setting of ‘Gabriel’s Message’ was on The Choir of Trinity College’s 2018 release Beneath the Incense Tree. His works have been performed by groups including The Schola of St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane; The St Louis Chamber Chorus; Fiore Chamber; Polyphonic Voices; The Choir of St John’s, East Malvern; The Scholars of St John’s, Camberwell; and the Australian Boys Choir.

Jerzy worked regularly with the Victoria State Opera, and has performed with Opera Australia in every Melbourne season since 1996. He has also worked with Ozopera, Melbourne Opera Company, Operalive, Melbourne CityOpera, and Victorian Opera in roles such as Sparafucile in Rigoletto, the title role in Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Grandpa Moss in Copland’s The Tender Land and Dr Bartolo in Barber of Seville. Jerzy has sung solo with all major Melbourne choral groups in repertoire ranging from Handel’s Messiah to Verdi’s Requiem and solo recitals include performances of Shostakovich’s Suite on Verses by Michelangelo and Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin. He has performed in many premieres of works by Australian composers, such as Richard Mills, Johanna Selleck and Helen Gifford, including two song cycles written especially for him by Michael Bertram and Lawrence Whiffin.

Recent performances include the role of Arthur in Iain Grandage’s The Riders for which he received a Green Room Award nomination, and Compere in the Australian premiere of Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts and the King in Ernst Toch’s The Princess and the Pea with Victorian Opera.