Amanda Hodder

Amanda has worked as accompanist, vocal coach, pianist and music director with Opera Australia, OzOpera, Opera Queensland, Australian Musical Theatre Festival, Mona Foma and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Amanda has also co-created new works at Sydney Festival, Walyalup/Fremantle Festival, Ten Days On The Island, Festival of Voices, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Melbourne Comedy Festival and Junction Arts Festival.

In 2021 Amanda collaborated with countertenor Nicholas Tolputt, director Benjamin Winspear and cinematographer Martin McGrath to create an immersive experience/performance of Schubert’s Winterreise, which resulted in a sellout season. In 2022 Amanda worked with neurodiverse children to create a rock cabaret based on their lived experiences, created and recorded a series of new piano works with composer Jabra Latham, and was invited for a third time to be resident at Performing Lines Tasmania’s Tarraleah residency.

In Ten Days On The Island’s 2023 program, Amanda was Choral Director for Women of Troy, with new music and lyrics by Katie Noonan and Behrouz Bouchani. In 2024 Amanda wrote vocal arrangements for the 2nd season of Bay of Fires, and was the local children’s chorus master for Opera Australia’s touring production of La Boheme. As leader of the highly successful pub choir Hobart Glee Club, Amanda featured heavily in the 2024 Festival of Voices program with all of her events selling out, resulting in approximately 500 members of the general public getting to experience impromptu group singing.

In 2025 Amanda has been Music Director and co-creator for Rachael Beck’s In Her Own Words (Sydney Festival) and Hannah Moloney’s Time Rebel (Ten Days On The Island). Amanda’s current major work in creation is Rumpel, a one act opera for countertenor and piano, with libretto co-written by herself by and Nicholas Tolputt, music by Jabra Latham, with Ben Winspear as directing and produced by Performing Lines TAS.

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