Spark Sanders Robinson is an Australian Mezzo-Soprano, puppeteer and emerging director, currently studying a Master of Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). She holds a Bachelor of Music from The Elder Conservatorium of Music, and both a Graduate Diploma (Voice/Opera) and a Master of Arts (Performing Arts) from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

 

Her directing credits include Menotti’s The Telephone, Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (RNCM Spotlight Concert 2023) and Agento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night (RNCM Lab Week 2023). The founder of Lights On Theatre, Spark has devised, designed and directed several puppetry/opera shows, including The Beasts (2021), Winter’s Light (RNCM Christmas Family Day 2022) and Light on Le Bestiaire (RNCM Lab Week 2022). She is a recipient of RNCM’s 2023 Creative Innovator Award with Lights On Theatre. 

 

Spark’s studies at the Royal Northern College of Music are generously supported by the George Henry Peters Scholarship, the N.W Award, the PPCA and the Maria Björnson Memorial Fund.