Kate Miller-Heidke
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk, musical theatre, and opera. She has released five Top 10 studio albums including O Vertigo!, Nightflight and Curiouser – which featured the multi-platinum hits The Last Day On Earth and Caught In The Crowd – and her latest album, Child In Reverse. Trained as a classical singer at the Queensland Conservatorium, Kate has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and several roles for the English National Opera. Her debut opera as a composer, The Rabbits, won four Helpmann Awards including Best Score and Best New Australian Work. With her collaborator Keir Nuttall, she wrote the music and lyrics to Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, which won five Helpmann Awards including Best Original Score, and the musical comedy Bananaland. Kate represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Competition in 2019 with her original song, Zero Gravity, achieving first place in her semi-final, Top 10 in the grand final, and winning the coveted Marcel Bezançon Award for Artistic Achievement. Kate is currently in the middle of the massive 55-date Catching Diamonds Tour of Australia.