State of Grace

About Grace Feltoe
Grace Feltoe is an Australian/Maltese soprano and sacred music specialist, from Perth, Western Australia. She studied at the University of Western Australia majoring in Music Studies and Specialist Music Studies (Piano Performance), which included strong choral and vocal training in the English tradition, leading to professional ensembles. From 2015, Grace assumed the role of cantor for various parishes in Perth, including St Mary’s Cathedral, St Patrick’s Basilica, St Paul’s Church, Divine Mercy Church, and New Norcia Benedictine Monastery, with whom she released a sacred music CD ‘Adoro Te’, with Fr Robert Nixon, OSB.
Grace was formerly co-director of the St Elizabeth of the Trinity Choir at Sacred Heart Church, as well as director of the Chapel Choir at the University of Notre Dame in Perth.
Further studies include a Certificate in Theology specialising in liturgy through the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
As a performer, Grace has much experience as a soloist for stage and concerts in a variety of productions and performances, including Gilbert and Sullivan productions, solo concerts, and now a passion for early and sacred music, which has led to performances of Pergolesi’ Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and excerpts of Boccherini’s Stabat Mater. In 2025, she has performed in Portugal, as soprano soloist in Dan Forrest's Lux - a Dawn From on High, Michael John Trotta's Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in C Minor, Op 80 and Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. She is a member of Záve Vocal Ensemble, and is performing a season of the new opera O Último Canto — Camões e o Destino by César Viana across Portugal and Spain in 2024 and 2025.
Grace is also a sectional and rehearsal assistant with Coro Sinfónico Inês de Castro in Coimbra, Portugal.
Grace is a piano and vocal teacher, having taught in well-regarded schools in Australia and from her private studio in-person and online. She currently provides one-on-one vocal training through Orfeon Académico de Coimbra, Portugal’s oldest choir.
In composition, Grace wrote her first Latin Mass setting ‘Mass of St Maximilian Kolbe’, parts of which were premiered in 2022, and now fully released and available on the website.
Moving to Portugal in 2022, Grace became involved with the Dominican Liturgical Centre in Krakow, assisting in the Extraordinary Music Workshop 2023, and continues to facilitate the annual Sacred Music Workshop at the Rosary Shrine in London.
In 2023 Grace launched the sacred music resource website ‘The Musica Sacra Project’ to help with the revitalisation of traditional sacred music internationally, with recordings, interviews, documents and resources. 2025 Grace was asked to provide blogs for Totus Tuus Apostolate in Singapore in conjunction with her blog ‘State of Grace’.


