singing_teacher_03052021.jpg International opera singer Jonathan Lemalu and his longtime singing teacher Honor McKellar. PHOTO: CHRISTINE O’CONNORGrammy Award-winning opera singer Jonathan Lemalu was yesterday happily reunited with his first singing teacher, Honor McKellar. He’s just the same - which is a good thing,’’ Miss McKellar said. Bass baritone Lemalu (45) said she was his ‘‘first ever singing teacher - she is the reason I am what I am, no doubt’’. She is a former New Zealand mezzo-soprano opera singer and the university’s first executant lecturer in voice and received a QSM in 1989, for services to music.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 03, 2021 20:37 UTC