Nicole Panizza has emerged as one of Ireland and the U.K’s leading vocal accompanists, recitalists and coaches. Her professional work encompasses both international and national forums. Nicole studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, South Australia before continuing her postgraduate studies in London with Malcolm Martineau and Roger Vignoles. She is currently completing her Doctorate of Music at the Royal College of Music (London), a study that focuses on American art song settings of the poet Emily Dickinson. Nicole has freelanced in Sydney for the Australian season of Phantom of the Opera, Opera Australia and the Cologne and Covent Garden Opera Awards. In London, she worked as Education Manager for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. In Ireland she has been a staff member of the Dublin Institute of Technology (Conservatory of Music and Drama) and University College Cork and has worked as an examiner for the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Nicole has been the recipient of many awards and bursaries including the Royal College of Music's Doctoral scholarship (2005) and the Marc and Eva Stern Fellowship at the internationally renowned festival "Songfest" in Malibu, U.S.A (2009). In the same year she was awarded an Irish Fulbright Award (Performing Arts) which enabled her to pursue her Doctoral research as a Visiting Fellow at both Harvard University and Manhattan School of Music (USA). She has given key lectures and performances at such venues as the National Concert Hall (Ireland), Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Edinburgh (U.K), University of Bonn (Germany), University of Adelaide (Australia), Amherst College (USA) and the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and St James’ Piccadilly in London (U.K). Nicole is a staff member of the Zerere Arts Foundation in Portugal, a founding member of OzMosis, an Irish-based chamber ensemble that specialises in contemporary Australian music, and currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Music Performance at Coventry University (UK).