Celeste Lazarenko is an Australian soprano and a student of the Opera Course, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London studying with Rudolf Piernay. She has a double Masters degree in Performance both from the Guildhall School , London and The Sydney Conservatorium of Music , Australia , a Diploma in Opera from the Sydney Conservatorium and a Bachelor of Visual Arts, from The University of Sydney, majoring in painting.

In September 2004 Celeste took up the prestigious offer of a place on the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Opera Course where many great opera stars have been trained. The Guildhall has offered a fees scholarship for this prestigious place care of the benefactors the Gwen Catley Scholarship and the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers . She has recently performed in the Guildhall Opera scenes as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Musetta in La bohиme and Euridice from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.

This year she has won The Countess of Munster Award, Helpmann Award, The Marten Bequest and a place in the prestigious Samling Foundation.

Celeste performed for the Australian High Commissioner at Australia House, London in December 2004 and sang the lead role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in Wimbledon , January 2005.

In July 2004 Celeste performed in Dido and Aeneas with Opera Australian, Sydney Opera House before taking up her Guildhall offer.

In 2004 Celeste gave a number of solo recitals in Australia House, London , and was a soloist in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater , Handel’ Messiah and Israel in Egypt with Kings College School Choir. In 2003 Celeste sang in Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Rochester Cathedral and The Fairfield Concerts, with full orchestra conducted by Ian Kennedy. She also performed a half hour Lieder recital in the Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City , Utah , America , as part of the Uthah Temple Square Concert Series - Summer Festival Programme. (recorded and broadcast).

In Australia Celeste has won The Opera and Arts Support Group Vocal Scholarship, The Nina Barden Memorial Scholarship, The Haas Encourage Award, The Temple Square Award and The Guildhall Award in The Australian Singing Competition’s Mathy Awards. She was the finalist in and opened the largest singing competition in Australia The McDonald’s Operatic Aria, Sydney Opera House, for two years running in 2002 and 2003.

At the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Celeste played the roles of The Swallow in Malcolm Williamson’s The Happy Prince, Constance in Dialogue des Carmйlites (broadcast on ABC), Hйro in Bйatrice et Bйnйdict , Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In 2002 Celeste performed with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Perth Concert Hall and was described in Opera Opera as having a “sweet, delicate soprano voice, deliciously shaped, free floating purely produced . . . ecstatic music making’.