WRITER LINE-UP // Sylvie Woods

MEET THE TALENT BRINGING YOU ISSUE #2

Our second print edition is about to make its way across Australia! As we prepare, we bring you our showcase of talented emerging arts journalists who have come together to share some incredible stories about the new generation of composers, performers, and arts administrators. 


Sylvie Woods is working towards her Masters Degree in Publishing at the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts.

Sylvie began performing classically with Opera Australia in the children’s chorus, and sang with the company from 2006-2009 in Turandot, La Boheme and Werther. Since then, Sylvie has appeared on Fine Music FM, Eastside Radio, Channel 10 and was the soloist in new work Ex Aere by Kirsten Milenko at City Recital Hall as part of Sydney’s Unashamedly Original series in 2017. 

Sylvie has performed in Europe with the Sydney Children’s Choir, as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House in Carmina Burana, and performed in Leonard Bernstein’ Mass with the Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir. She sang as a soloist in Allegri’s Miserere with the St Andrew’s College Chapel Choir, where she resided on the William Cumming Thom Choral Scholarship. Sylvie can be heard as the soloist in the World Vision The Wall commercial that was broadcast through New Zealand.

Sylvie is a writer and music journalist, contributing regularly to CutCommon as Lead Writer (NSW). She has also published work in Sydney Arts GuideThe Ladies Network, Megaphone Oz, Audrey Journal, Sydney Scoop, BEAST Magazine, Australian Theatre Review and Honi Soit. She won the prestigious Principal’s Prize for poetry at St Andrew’s College in 2013.

Read Sylvie in our print issue #2! You can catch up on our inaugural print magazine, which is now available online only for a limited time.

Our inaugural print edition was released in 2018. We’re excited to bring you issue #2! (Above: our editor Stephanie Eslake with Tasmanian Youth Orchestra star Lauren Foreman, p.19 issue #1).