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Pot Pourri

Pot-Pourri are based in Melbourne, Australia.

Pot-Pourri is Tania de Jong AM, Rebecca Bode, Jon Bode, Jonathan Morton and Rebecca Chambers.

Pot-Pourri's live shows are interactive and uplifting a true celebration combining Opera, Broadway, Comedy, Cabaret, Didgeridoo, Dance, Acrobatics and Magic. They are  very  accustomed to standing ovations and numerous encores!

Their client list is both long and diverse.  Performing  nationally and internationally  at concerts, private functions and corporate events: Opera in the Vineyards,  Broadway Under the Stars, Melbourne Recital Centre. Countries have included China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy and the USA.

Pot-Pourri  looks forward to creating a special, memorable performance for you.  A sparkling and unique performance featuring well-known hits from Opera to Broadway and songs from:

Phantom of the Opera | Les Miserables | Westside Story | La Traviata | Turandot | Carmen | Lakme | The Pearl Fisher.

Favourites and international hits from Leonard Cohen, IL DIVO, Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli including Nella Fantasia, You Raise Me Up, Hallelujah, The Prayer and Time to Say Goodbye.

These talented  4 hit those high C's in Opera, belt out Broadway, seduce with song, dance up a storm, create magic and stir your soul with haunting ballads.

The diversity in the performance and the music and comedy crosses all boundaries of background, nationality and culture, and really helps to put the audience in a positive, celebratory and uplifted mood.

Pot-Pourri are happy to prepare a special song and other material with lyrics related to the client and industry. The performers will also charm the audience and your special guests with comical interaction.

Pot-Pourri's great success is largely due to their ability to be innovative with traditional art forms and adapt to each unique audience.

They are clever and will create a show that is memorable, funny and moving.

Tania de Jong AM  - Soprano

Tania de Jong AM is the inspiration, co-founder and artistic director of Pot-Pourri.

A graduate of the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Law with Honours and the Victorian College of the Arts, Tania is considered one of Australia's most talented sopranos.

She has performed with the Victoria State Opera and as a soloist with a number of orchestras. In 2006 Tania received the Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her work in founding The Song Room.

Tania's other awards include the "Outstanding Individual Contribution to Australian Culture"  Churchill Fellowship and the Accessibility Award in The Melbourne Awards. She was a finalist in the Telstra Business Women's Awards and has recently been inducted into the AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.

Tania is on the Board of Child Abuse Prevention and Research Australia.

She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2008 for service to the arts as a performer and entrepreneur and through the establishment and development of music and arts enrichment programs for schools and communities.

She has recently founded Creativity Australia to bring wellbeing into the workforce and communities through creative thinking and leadership programs.

Jonathan Morton - Baritone

A man of hidden talents, Jonathan not only sings exquisitely, but also has a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, is an IT whiz and plays the didgeridoo.

Jonathon completed the Opera Studio course at VCA. He played the part of Metronome in Zoggy the Time Traveller for the VSO's Schools Company and won the Warrnambool Aria. He performed with the VSO from 1988 understudying the role of El Dancairo in the VSO's Carmen and played a role in VSO's My Fair Lady.

He played the role of Ben in The Telephone for the Melbourne Opera Company, Castlemaine State Festival and Port Fairy Festival. For MTA he played the Prince in Rapunzel-The Musical! and the Count in Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!

Rebecca Bode - Soprano

Rebecca studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and Queensland Conservatorium of Music before her debut with The Victorian State Opera and later as a full-time soloist with Opera Australia.

She travelled overseas and performed and toured in Europe, America and Asia with Columbia Artists Management, London City Opera, European Chamber Opera, and Opera in Concert Productions Worldwide.

Her operatic roles include Mimi, Loretta, Musetta, Norina, Despina, Adele, Valencienne, Yum Yum, Josephine and Mabel. Bec is the proud mother of two little divas.

Jon Bode - Tenor

Jon has performed as an actor and singer in theatre, musical theatre and opera in Australia and around the world. He studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts before working with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, State Theatre Company of South Australia and in various touring musicals.

Whilst living overseas he toured with European Chamber Opera, London City Opera, Columbia Artists Management and Opera in Concert Productions Worldwide. Since returning to Australia Jon has continued to work in theatre, regularly appears as a guest soloist with Melbourne Opera Company and is a soloist with Opera Australia.

Rebecca Chambers - Pianist

Rebecca Chambers has established herself as a prominent young Australian pianist playing as a soloist with Australia's major symphony orchestras and has performed on four continents.

In recognition of her achievement in music she was named as the 1996 Young Australian of the Year. In 1996 Rebecca graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in New York and made her Lincoln Centre debut with New York Symphony.

Rebecca is a dynamic and versatile performer and will create a musical menu for any occasion. She is capable of playing classical, jazz, light opera, Broadway, pop, film and virtuosic featured solos from Tchaikovsky and Chopin to Gershwin.

And too further impress you...

• over 40  national and international tours
• 6 CD's
• PotPourri  were selected as one of the companies to represent Australia internationally for the Reaching the World program of The Sydney Olympic Games.
• Were invited to perform at the World Expo 2000 in Hannover.
• Performed at the Australia Germany Association Conference Gala Dinner in Brisbane. 
• Were  guest artists with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra in Korea. 
• Launched their fifth album in a sell-out season at The Famous Spiegeltent at the Melbourne Festival. 
• Were the only Australian act invited to perform for the International Music Theatre Festival in Korea.  
• Tours included a sell-out season in Japan, Taiwan, performances in Italy and a major tour of New Zealand. 
• Pot-Pourri was the first Australian act invited to perform at the Macau Cultural Centre in China. 
• Debuted in Hong Kong, China for the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
  Mainland China:  appeared  at Government House.