The IHOS Laboratory was founded in 2000 to develop the skills of young singers in Tasmania. Professional guest artists conduct weekly classes in vocal training, movement and music theory, and work with student-singers to develop music theatre works as fully staged professional productions. The IHOS Laboratory is also dedicated to providing a platform for young and emerging composers, directors and designers. Since 2000 the IHOS Laboratory has premiered twenty new works, showcasing the work of more than seventy young Tasmanian performers.
Constantine Koukias, Graeme Leak, Christos Linou, Anna Messariti, Robert Jarman, Georgina Pickering, Jindra Rosendorf, Juha Vanhakartano, Matt Warren and Sally Rees
Feruu Seljuk, Julia Christie, Liz Monaghan, Maria Kunda, Mary Burgess, Michael Bates, Rachel Lang, Sally Rees, Matt Warren, Sandra Alcorn, Ineka Randazzo
2010: Kitchen Table Rondo, Michael Sydney Jones *
2009: Kitchen Table Rondo, Michael Sydney Jones **
2007: As if Electronically Controlled, Christopher Williams *
2007: Olegas Staged Excerpts, Constantine Koukias
2006: As if Electronically Controlled, Christopher Williams **
2005: Da Ponte in Absentia Constantine Koukias
2005: The Death of Chatterton, Matthew Dewey (Emerging)
2004: For No Apparent Reason, Myles Griffith (Emerging)
2004: Succubus, Michael Lampard (Emerging)
2004: A Priest’s Passion Matthew Dewey (Emerging)
200: Blood Lights, Ian Cresswell
2003: Scenes from a Calabrese Opera, Angelina Zucco
2003: Creatures of the Wind, Kate Moore (Emerging)
2003: The Fall of the House of Usher, Maria Grenfell
2002: A Lizard Between Her Breasts, Rafaelle Marcellino
2002: POP, Sally Rees & Matt Warren
2002: Antigone Sketches, Constantine Koukias
2002: Touch Wood, Claudio Pompili
2002: Harmony, Allan Badalassi (Emerging)
2002: Eden’s Bequest, Rosemary Austen (Second Stage)
2001: Slip – Synthetic Spaces, Hugh Covill (Emerging)
2001: Sway, Lisa Morisset (Emerging)
2001: Eden’s Bequest, Rosemary Austen (Emerging)
2001: Death by Defenestration, Joe Bugden (Emerging)
2001: Happy New Ears, Graeme Leak
2000: The Tesla Project, Constantine Koukias
2000: Images from the Life of Nikola Tesla, Constantine Koukias
* Full Staging
** Workshop Only
In 2011, IHOS mentored two young artists with financial support for music theory, voice and performance studies as well as a practical apprenticeship around the company’s 2011 productions.
The students were supervised and mentored by Constantine Koukias throughout the process. The scholarships were funded by donations from IHOS’ Public Fund. The young artists worked towards a program of recitals and concerts for IHOS and other organisations in late 2011 & early 2012.
Alexander McGee (Voice) was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and is currently a Year 9 student at Kings Meadows High School. He has studied with the PCYC Youth Theatre and NIDA during their Summer School short course programs. His vocal teacher in Launceston is Ben Martin. Alexander has performed for many organisations including: Opera Works, 10 Days on the Island, the Evandale Village Singers and the Launceston Musical Society, in productions such as Die Fledermaus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Annie, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, Thank You for the Music, Trial by Jury, The Mikado and the character of the Screen Angel in Borders for IHOS. In 2011 and 2012 Alexander will be performing in IHOS productions of To Traverse Water and Waiting for the Barbarians. After further studies, Alexander hopes to pursue a career in music with a focus on opera.
Joseph Thompson (Emerging Composer, Hobart) began formally composing in early 2010 at Elizabeth College under the guidance of composition teacher Constantine Koukias and classroom teacher Jennie MacDonald. In 2010 he won the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Competition with his composition for string quartet ‘A Cat by the Fire’. The work was performed in concert by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s string orchestra. For the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Competition students were required to write a piece based Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’. Thompson’s piece employed many of the same techniques as ‘Pierrot Lunaire’, and was shortlisted for the competition. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra flew Thompson to Sydney in November for extensive workshops and the orchestra with renowned conductor Richard Gill.