The Australian-Irish tenor Garrie Davislim studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University, and The National Opera Studio in London. As winner of the Opera Foundation Australia’s “Covent Garden National Opera Studio Award” and „Italian Opera Award” he was able to study voice further in Rome and Florence. He studied voice with Bob Lemke (Australia)Franco Pagliazzi (Florence), Robert Dean (London), Kammersaengerin Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Wien) and with Franco Farina (USA).

Garrie Davislim has had sung at theatres all over Europe including Bayreuth Festival, La Scala (Milan), Volksoper Wien, Nationaltheater Weimar and the Staatsoperette Dresden.

Repertoire among others include: Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), Don Carlo (Don Carlo), Duca (Rigoletto), Alfredo (La Traviata), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don José (Carmen), Prinz (L’amour des trois oranges), Königssohn (Königskinder) , Hofmann (Tales of Hoffmann) and Tony (West Side Story).

Garrie Davislim is also in demand as concert singer. In opera and concert he has worked with well-known conductors such as Sir Christopher Hogwood, Pablo Heras- Casado, Thomas Hengelbrock, Alfred Eschwé, David Parry and Riccardo Chailly in Europe, and has performed with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, The West German Radio Symphony, The North German Philharmonic, The Radio Philharmonic Saarbruecken, The Orchestra of Europe, Berliner Konzert Chor und Orchester and the Frankfurt and Munich Symphony, and State Orchestra of Victoria.

Garrie has fond memories of performing in the senior classical vocal sections at Royal South Street Society Ballarat Eisteddfod in the 90’s alongside fellow RSSS Alumni Jason Wasley.