Annalisa Kerrigan | tl

Annalisa started studying piano at the age of 4, and singing at 13. Growing up in the Yarra Valley on a horse and cattle property, she went on to get her Bachelor of Music from Melbourne University and Graduate Diploma in Opera from the Victorian College of Arts before moving to Florence to study singing with Professor Antonio Moretti-Pananti. In Florence, where she remained for six years, she worked for the world famous art studio Charles H Cecil, and sang in recitals and concerts throughout Europe.

In 2003, she returned to Melbourne to be invited to sing at Channel 9's Carols by Candlelight, performing in various high profile events like Orchestra Victoria's Opera in the Market, Opera in the Roses, Opera in the Winery, Opera in the Park, Melbourne Opera Company's Cosi Fan Tutte, and much more. She has performed La Princess for Ravel's L'Enfant Et Les Sortiles (Melbourne International Festival), toured Eliza in My Fair Lady with John Lidgerwood (Morning Melodies), toured with Virtuosi Tasmania at the Coal Valley Music Festival, and throughout Tasmania, and performed to sold out audiences, receiving standing ovations throughout the world with various internationally acclaimed artists, including Genevieve Lang, principal harpist from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Claire Sterling from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Richard Bonynge conducting the London City Orchestra, concert pianists David Helfgott and Florence's Riccardo Sandiford in Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, Ireland, Italy, France, Austria, UK as well as guest starring in shows such as Scotland the Brave with the Western Australian, South Australian, Melbourne, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and Irish Songs of Praise with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

She released her best selling album "Waiting on an Angel" in 2005 with ABC Classics, where it jumped to the top of the classical charts and remained there for six weeks.

ABC Classics released her extraordinary follow up album "Ireland" in April 2008, and she is currently touring "Ireland" throughout Australia.

Annalisa supports the work of the Australian Federation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific (http://www.afap.org), raising money to set up co-operative partnerships for women's small businesses in Aids stricken areas of Africa supporting HIV awareness, several schools, orphanages and business start ups. In Vietnam Annalisa helped AFAP's dengue prevention project areas where victims of Typhoon Durian in the Mekong Delta were left homeless and helping to address HIV risk among youth in Hanoi. She believes passionately in empowering women in third world countries to build their independence, their education and confidence in small business, allowing them to educate their families and build communities." .