Jessica Cottis

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Jessica Cottis is a London-based, Australian-born conductor and musician. She is a winner of multiple music awards.

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[edit] Early Life and Awards

Cottis is a first-class honors graduate of the Australian National University, where she studied the organ, piano and musicology before continuing her studies in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain. A prize winner in the 2000 Australian Young Performers' Competition, Cottis appeared with orchestras across Australia and made her European debut at London's Westminster Cathedral a year later. In 2003 she was awarded a prestigious Eric Thompson Trust grant to attend the Cours d'Interprétation at Romainmôtier, Switzerland.

[edit] Music and Studies

She was subsequently awarded the E. Power Biggs and Whalley Awards to study for a MMus in Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London. A recipient of numerous prizes, she has given recitals across North America, Europe and Australasia and recently recorded for the RAM/SSLSO label, as broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She is currently postgraduate conducting student at the Royal Academy, where she holds the Gordon Trust Scholarship, Wall Trust Award, Louisa Lewissohn Memorial Trust Award, and a HR Taylor Trust Award for Conducting. At the Royal Academy, she studies with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. Highlights of the last year include working as assistant to Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Sydney Opera House, performances with the Vorpommern Symphoniker, Le nozze di Figaro with the King's Opera, The Magic Flute with British Youth Opera, Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in Bulgaria, and Die Zauberflöte for the Bloomsbury Festival. Future engagements include L'Elisir d'amore for the Anghiari Festival, Tuscany, with British Youth Opera and the Southbank Sinfonia. She is the younger sister of Australian musician and songwriter James Montgomery.

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