Dianna Nixon

A pianist, singer, actor, director and producer, Dianna runs her arts practice from a home base in the rural NSW village of Gunning, north of Canberra. She runs two businesses: the not-for-profit creative production company, Music Theatre Projects, and her piano and voice teaching practice, Wild Voices Music Theatre, which operates from a studio in Dickson, ACT. Dianna has been active in this region as a professional performing artist, arts educator, and passionate arts advocate for 20 years. Prior to arriving here Dianna lived and worked around Australia, toured extensively, also undertaking artistic residencies.

As well as engagements with choirs, opera choruses and community groups over many years, Dianna works as voice and accent coach for theatre, music theatre, film and TV. She has received recognition from the Australian Music Examinations Board for her teaching practice and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2012 for her project The Developing Voice. Dianna holds Estill Figure Proficiency and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. She is an experienced and genre-fluid accompanist, specialising in working with singers and dancers.

More info about her project work can be found here.