Joslyn Rechter, a Melbourne-born mezzo-soprano, studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was engaged in the Opera Studio and subsequently as a soloist at Opera Australia. The Covent Garden Scholarship of the Opera Foundation Australia and the German Opera Prize, combined with a contract at the Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera, led her to Europe from 2000. This was followed by permanent engagements at the Cologne Opera and the Wuppertaler Bühnen. Her repertoire includes many specialist roles from early Baroque to world premieres, including Penelope in Monteverdi's »Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria«, Ruggiero in Handel's »Alcina«, Dulcinée in Massenet's »Don Quichotte«, The Fox in Janáček's »The Cunning Little Vixen« and The Maid in Fortner's »Blood Wedding«. Guest appearances have taken her to theatres in Hagen, Bonn, Essen, Osnabrück, Koblenz and Karlsruhe. Joslyn Rechter's concert activities include appearances with the Melbourne, Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, the Estonian National Orchestra as well as with many different orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Germany and Switzerland.