Yasmin

Yasmin Arkinstall dreams of pursuing a career on the stage, loving the concept of temporarily being someone else through music and acting. She’s a young soprano who has just completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) for classical voice at the Conservatorium of Music with straight distinction results in voice. Some of her performing has taken place at the Con, but she has also performed for weddings, funerals, nursing homes, luncheons and dinners, corporate events and cocktail parties as a soloist representing The Smith Family, Blacktown Council, Inner West Council, Rob Martin Productions and Cantabile Music. She recently sang as a soloist for a Studio 10 news segment “Yasmin’s Journey to Finding Her Voice” and appeared in another interview on the same show in 2018 where she told her story.

She has also sang as a soloist for the Schools Spectacular when she was 8 years of age, at City Recital Hall for 500 of Deutsche Bank’s business women, at the Opera House for the 2013 Smith Family annual ceremony, for Julia Gillard when she was the Prime Minister at her UWS campaign launch, and this year for the opening of the new shoe floor in David Jones (Elizabeth Street store). This floor opening had Sarah Harris from Studio 10, Let’s Connect Women, The Smith Family, and Comm Bank present.

She has been interviewed about her musical journey by Studio 10 in 2018 as a news story, CutCommon (classical music magazine) in 2018, and by The Convo Couch in 2018. Her stage experience in singing and acting extends to principle roles with FAMS Theatre Co (Polly Peachum in the Beggars Opera), Genesian Theatre (Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro), Normanhurst Musical Society (Laetitia in the Zoo) and Manly Panto (Operatic Lamb in Cinderella: Princess Private Investigator). She has also been dancing since the age of 5, being strong in jazz and tap dance, and has completed 6th grade piano. As well as her musical background, Yasmin was nominated for the 2019 Seven News Young Achiever Award in the NSW/ACT Community Services category for her volunteer public speaking about mental health and disadvantage.

Yasmin is excited to continue exploring her love for music and theatre.

Testimonials
“Your voice is amazing, it’s like it’s dropped straight out of heaven.”   Joe Hildebrand, “Yasmin’s Journey to Finding Her Voice”

“This included the talented Yasmin Arkinstall, an opera singer, who performed a moving piece for us.”  Elizabeth Ruff, Director of Studies at Knox Grammar Middle School Academy

“Beautiful young Yasmin Arkinstall was an experienced singer and dancer… Her transformation into the complex heroine Polly was remarkable… an amazing talent blossomed.”   Christine Logan, Endangered Productions

Sample Song List
(Enquire for a copy of full list)You Raise Me Up – Rolf Løvland
Candle in the Wind – Elton John
When I Grow Too Old to Dream – Sigmund Romberg
Ave Maria, op. 52 no. 6 – Franz Schubert
Amazing Grace – Anonymous
Gaudeamus Igitur – Anonymous
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz – Harold Arlen
Summertime, Porgy and Bess – George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me, Oh, Kay! – George Gershwin
The Beggars Opera (role of Polly Peachum) – arr. Johann Christoph Pepusch
Poor Wand’ring One, The Pirates of Penzance – Arthur Sullivan
I cannot tell what this love may be, Patience – Arthur Sullivan
The Last Rose of Summer, Martha – Friedrich von Flotow
Endless Pleasure, Endless Love, Semele – George Frideric Handel
Laurie’s Song, The Tender Land – Aaron Copland
Pie Jesu, Requiem – Gabriel Fauré
Panis Angelicus, Messe à trois voix – César Franck
Schafe können sicher weiden, Hunting Cantata – Joseph Sebastian Bach
Song of a Nightclub Proprietress, Five Betjeman Songs no. 2 – Madeleine Dring
Old Sir Faulk, Three songs no. 3 – William Walton
Sleep, Five Elizabethan Songs (The Elizas) no. 4 – Ivor Gurney
Greensleaves – Anonymous
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms – Benjamin Britten
An Eriskay love lilt, 4 Hebridean Love Lilts no. 1 – Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Sure on this Shining Night, op. 13 no. 3 – Samuel Barber
Amor, Cabaret Songs no. 6 – William Bolcom
Frühlingsglaube, op. 5 no. 3 – Franz Schubert
Liebe Schwärmt auf allen Wegen, D. 239 no. 6 – Franz Schubert
Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D300 – Franz Schubert
‘O Sole Mio – Eduardo di Capua
Caro mio ben – Guiseppe Giordani
Me voglio fa ‘na casa, Soirées d’automne à l’Infrascata – Gaetano Donizetti
Je te veux – Erik Satie
La Diva de l’Empire – Erik Satie
Les chemins de l’amour – Francis Poulenc
Canzonetta spagnuola – Gioachino Rossini
El vito, Canciones Clásicas Españolas vol. 3 no. 6 – Fernando Obradors
Fylgia, op. 16 no. 4 – Wilhelm Stenhammar
I skogen, Sånger och visor no. 1 – Wilhelm Stenhammar
Sverige, op. 22 no. 2 – Wilhelm Stenhammar