Bio

Eamon Dooley is a classically trained Australian Bass-Baritone, currently living in Melbourne.

He is an emerging artist with Victorian Opera, scholar with Opera Scholars Australia, and a freelance classical soloist.

Eamon has extensive experience as a choral and chamber singer, singing for the Alchemy Consort, the National Youth Choir of Australia, the Melbourne Cappella Chamber Choir, and holding the principal bass scholarship for the Choir of Newman College under Dr. Gary Ekkel. He has performed as a soloist with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and at the Organs of Ballarat Goldfields Festival.

Eamon has developed a strong repertoire of Artsong, Lieder, Oratorio and Operatic Arias. He is currently the proud recipient of a ‘Secondo’ scholarship with Opera Scholars Australia, and finished as runner up for the 2021-2022 OSA Aria competition.

In 2022 Eamon made his debut as chorus for Victorian Opera’s Tasmanian tour of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, returning for a sold out Melbourne Recital Centre performance in March 2023. He has since gone on to perform in the eight part chorus for Strauss’ Capriccio conducted by Simone Young, and in the Chorus for the acclaimed 2024 season of Bernsteins Candide. As a principal artist, Eamon has performed the roles of Semyon Semyonovich Baburov in the Victorian Opera emerging artists production of Shostakovich’s Melbourne, Cheremushki at the Melbourne Arts Centre, and “Mr Waa” in Short Black Opera’s 2023 Melbourne Arts Centre production of Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO's new opera, "Parrwang Lifts the Sky". Eamon is currently preparing multiple roles for Victorian Opera’s production of English Eccentrics.

A versatile singer and musician, Eamon’s Covid19 lockdown included virtual collaborations with Norwegian Power Metal Band “Parsifal”, and bringing delight to locked down communities through the “Anglesea Phantoms” project.

Eamon studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, completing a concurrent Diploma in Music Performance with first class honours alongside a Bachelor of Design.