Armenia: Fifth member of Genealogy revealed!

ARMTV has just revealed the name of the fifth member of their sextet for Eurovision 2015!

Mary-Jean O’Doherty is the member from Australia!

About Mary-Jean O’Doherty:

Mary-Jean is an in­ter­na­tion­al col­oratu­ra so­pra­no of Ar­me­ni­an an­ces­try who has Aus­tralian, US and Greek/EU Cit­i­zen­ship. In Novem­ber 2011 she made her debut at the Royal Al­bert Hall, Lon­don, singing the Queen of the Night’s aria in Ray­mond Gub­bay’s Clas­si­cal Spec­tac­u­lar. In March 2011 she per­formed the title role of Lucia in Prague State Opera’s pro­duc­tion of Lucia di Lam­mer­moor, and reprised the role there in Septem­ber 2011. In the Au­tumn of 2010 she per­formed the role of “Na­jade” and cov­ered the role of “Zer­bi­net­ta” for Welsh Na­tion­al Opera’s pro­duc­tion of Ari­adne auf Naxos.

In Febru­ary (2010) she per­formed the role of “The Queen of the Night” in Opera Ddraig’s pro­duc­tion of The Magic Flute in Cardiff, UK; and in the sum­mer of 2009 she per­formed the role of “Car­oli­na” in CIAV’s pro­duc­tion of Il Mat­ri­mo­nio Seg­re­to in Barga, Italy. In 2008, Mary-Jean sang the role of “Galatea” in Pa­cif­ic Opera’s pro­duc­tion of Franz von Suppé’s Gor­geous Galatea in Syd­ney and was “Young Heidi” in The Pro­duc­tion Com­pa­ny’s pro­duc­tion of Stephen Sond­heim’s Fol­lies in Mel­bourne.

In 2008, Mary-Jean was the first re­cip­i­ent of the Aus­tralian In­ter­na­tion­al Opera Award (AIOA), a schol­ar­ship to study at Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty’s ac­claimed In­ter­na­tion­al Acade­my of Voice (CIAV) in Wales, di­rect­ed by the renowned tenor Den­nis O’Neill, CBE.

Mary-Jean was the First Prize win­ner of the 2013 Paris Opera Awards. She was a fi­nal­ist for the Stu­art Bur­rows In­ter­na­tion­al Vocal Com­pe­ti­tion in June 2011 as well as for the 10th Ara­gall Singing com­pe­ti­tion in Sabadell, Spain in 2010. She was a fi­nal­ist for the Aus­tralian Singing Com­pe­ti­tion Mathy Award in 2007 and the winner of the ABC Sym­pho­ny Aus­tralia Young Vo­cal­ist Award in 2007.

The members of Genealogy are originally from Armenia, but they all live in different continents. The idea is ”to unite 5 continents and Armenia through the power of music”, we guess this applies this year’s motto ‘Building Bridges’.

Peace, unity and tolerance, that will be the key message of the Armenian entry in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest to be called “Don’t Deny”.

The five artists at the same time symbolize the five petals of the forget-me-not flower. In their centre, the group will be unified by a sixth artist, who will be from Armenia.

Four names out six have been revealed until de date:

• Europe: Esaï
• America: Tamar Kaprelian
• Africa: Vahe Tilbian
• Asia: Stephanie Topalian
• Australia: Mary-Jean O’Doherty

The last artist, who is the Armenian member and centre of the flower, will be announced in the coming days, stay tuned!