CHEETHAM, Deborah

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is an Australian soprano, composer, educator, and arts leader, born in 1964. She studied music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and later undertook further operatic training in New York. She founded Short Black Opera and has played an important role in developing and promoting First Nations classical music in Australia.
Her major compositions include the operas Pecan Summer and Parrwang Lifts the Sky and the large-scale choral-orchestral work Eumeralla: A War Requiem for Peace. She currently holds senior artistic and academic positions with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Conservatorium of Music.