Felicity Gallagher graduated with first class Honours from the Canberra School of Music in 2000, where she studied with Virginia Taylor and Vernon Hill. Felicity has performed with the Canberra School of Music Orchestra, the Canberra Youth Orchestra, and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. She has toured nationally with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and internationally with both the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra Cammerata ensemble.

She travelled to the UK twice for further advanced study, assisted by a Big Brother Movement study award in 2001, and in 2003 by an Australian Youth Orchestra Opportunity Grant.

Her performances for Stopera include: the premier of Judith Crispin-Cresswell’s The Nameless Dead for FOCA 1999; Impressions - Music from the Era of Monet at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001; Viva Verdi! in 2001; a concert of 18th century Italian music for the exhibition The Italians at the National Gallery of Australia in 2002; Galuppi’s The Country Philosopher at The Street Theatre in 2002 and on tour to the Castlemaine State Festival in 2003; and Rameau’s Pigmalion in the 2003 Stopera production cantata.