In April 2021, a month after the untimely death of soprano Taryn Fiebig, Pinchgut Opera announced the Taryn Fiebig Scholar program to honour her legacy. The program provides development opportunities for gifted emerging Australian opera singers.

Soprano Chloe Lankshear was named as the first Taryn Fiebig Scholar. Now there will be a second scholar thanks to a new partnership with The Humanity Foundation, a Melbourne-based private philanthropic organisation. Perth-born tenor Louis Hurley has been named as the first Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholar.

Louis Hurley performing in Acis and Galatea for Pinchgut Opera at UKARIA, as part of the 2022 Adelaide Festival. Photo © Tony Lewis

The Director of The Humanity Foundation, Tayla Masel, was a close friend of Fiebig and wanted to find a way to recognise her.

“I could think of no other way to celebrate the extraordinary craft of performing that was Taryn’s hallmark than via this partnership with Pinchgut Opera,” said Masel, who is an opera director.

“Her love of imparting her skills to students was the great joy of her life. This scholarship program embodies all of these things and more, and I am very...