Tania De Jong

Tania Karen de Jong is an Australian soprano, social entrepreneur, businesswoman, motivational speaker, and event producer. She is the founder of Creative Innovation Global, Creative Universe, Creativity Australia, Dimension5, Music Theatre Australia, Pot-Pourri, and the Song Room, and co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia. De Jong was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics" globally by ''Psychedelic Invest'' in 2021.

Early life

De Jong was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, to her Dutch father and Austrian mother, both of whom escaped the Holocaust. Her parents met at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel. De Jong's mother Eva de Jong-Duldig was a Dutch national tennis champion, a Federation Cup player for Australia, and a three-time quarter-finalist at the Wimbledon Championships.
She also won gold medals at the 1957 Maccabiah Games and the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

De Jong's maternal grandfather, Karl Duldig, a Polish refugee living in Vienna who escaped the Holocaust with his family, ultimately landing in Australia, was a Vienna-trained sculptor. Her maternal grandmother, Slawa Duldig, also trained as a sculptor in Vienna, and invented the world's first modern folding umbrella. Her maternal grandparents’ former home in Melbourne's now operates as a museum named the 'Duldig Studio'.

De Jong and her parents moved from the Netherlands to Melbourne, Australia, when de Jong was one year old.

Academic life

De Jong graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Law (Honours). She then graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Graduate Diploma in Opera and Music Theatre, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Music (Opera and Voice). She also attended college in the United States for a year, on a tennis scholarship.

Career

Soprano

Aged 14, de Jong was advised by a friend not to undertake singing lessons. She nevertheless auditioned for the chorus of her school's performance of ''Oklahoma'' at age 17, and was cast in the lead role.

Tania won numerous singing competitions and was awarded various music scholarships to further her vocal studies including a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Grant for advanced vocal training in San Francisco, U.S.A. with Campell Dickson Titus III and Scott Gilmore. She Studied singing and Italian with Antonio Moretti Pananti in Florence on an Italian Government Scholarship and Ian Potter Foundation Grant.  She was awarded the Dame Roma Mitchell Winston Churchill Fellowship for overseas study with Eric Vietheer in London. She continued her vocal studies with a number of leading vocal teachers and coaches globally including acclaimed vocal coaches Peter Locke and David Harper in London and Australia, Australian conductor Richard Divall,  singing teachers Anna Connolly, Gary May and Bettine McCaughan.

She obtained an Associate Diploma of Arts (Opera/Music Theatre) and Postgraduate Diploma (Opera/Voice),from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She completed the Diploma of Acting and Movement for Singers at the National Theatre Drama School.

As a soprano, de Jong has performed as a soloist with a number of orchestras at the Victoria State Opera, and across 40 countries, including at the Sydney Opera House, Seoul Arts Centre, and Opera under the Stars. De Jong has collaborated with soprano Antoinette Halloran

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