c.v. - CONDUCTING AND Direction

CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL/ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLES:

2024 Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Year 5 & Year 6 guitar groups: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Concert Band: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2023 Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Year 5 & Year 6 guitar groups: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Concert Band: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2022 Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Year 5 & Year 6 guitar groups: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2021 NZ Senior Ukulele Squad: direction via Zoom (COVID-19) - performance at NZ Ukulele Festival
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Year 5 & Year 6 guitar groups: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2020 NZ Senior & Junior Ukulele Squads: direction via Zoom (COVID-19) - performances at NZ Ukulele Festival
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Year 5 & Year 6 guitar groups: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2019 NZ Senior & Junior Ukulele Squads: director - performances at NZ Ukulele Festival
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Churchie (Anglican Church Grammar School) Eagle Guitars Ensemble: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Senior Choir & Boys Choir: director
2018 NZ Senior Ukulele Squad: conductor - performances at Hawaiian Ukulele Festival
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Churchie (Anglican Church Grammar School) Eagle Guitars Ensemble: director
  Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School - Camp Hill Ukulele Music Society (CHUMS): director
2017 Churchie (Anglican Church Grammar School) Symphony Orchestra: conductor
  NZ Senior Ukulele Squad: conductor - support for James Hill, Auckland
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  Churchie (Anglican Church Grammar School) Eagle Guitars Ensemble: director
2016 NZ Ukulele Development Squad: conductor - concerts in Auckland and Christchurch
  see Bamboo Swing video here
  Somerville House Girls School - Guitar Ensemble: director
  “Churchie” Anglican Church Grammar School - Eagle Guitars Ensemble: director
2015 NZ Ukulele Development Squad: conductor - concerts at Auckland Town Hall and NZ Ukulele Festival
2014 NZ Ukulele Development Squad: conductor - concerts at Auckland Town Hall and NZ Ukulele Festival
  Auckland Primary Principals Association Combined Choir: guest conductor
  Western Springs College: Spamalot - musical director
  Dawn Chorus Auckland: musical director
2012-2014 Ponsonby Primary School Chamber Choir, Auckland: resident conductor
  see videos of Price Tag and Mihimihi here
2012 Western Springs College: West Side Story - musical director
2008 Alice Springs Choral Society: guest conductor
  Norwood Symphony Orchestra/Tutti Ensemble: guest conductor
2007 Brighton Secondary School Orchestra:  (special interest music school orchestra) guest conductor
  Alice Springs Choral Society: guest conductor
2002 Woodford Folk Festival 2002-2003: choir director for Fire Event (massed choir of 400)
  State Theatre of South Australia: conductor/chorus master; My Life, My Love for Adelaide Festival 2002
  Tutti Ensemble Holdfast Choir: guest conductor:  My Life, My Love excerpts, Adelaide Town Hall
1997 Martenitsa Bulgarian women’s choir:  guest conductor; rehearsals & recording session Inside this room CD
  Ascham Senior Orchestra:  (private school orchestra) resident conductor
1996 Ascham Senior Orchestra:  (private school orchestra) resident conductor
  Sydney Chamber Choir:  guest conductor for recording session of soundtrack to Dead Heart, feature film
1995 Ascham Senior Orchestra:  (private school orchestra) resident conductor
  Queenwood Senior Orchestra:  (private school orchestra) guest conductor
  The Australian Opera:  off-stage conductor:  The Eighth Wonder
1994 The Australian Opera:  off-stage and cover conductor;  Lulu
1993

The Australian Opera:  off-stage conductor;  The Golem, Lucia di Lammermoor,
  Orphée et Euridice, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde
  extra-chorus preparation;  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
1990 Western Australian Mandolin Orchestra:  rehearsal conductor
1989 West Australian Symphony Orchestra Singers:  assistant conductor
1988 Penrhos Orchestra:  (private school orchestra) guest conductor
1987-1988 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music Nine-Voice Choir:  resident conductor
1987 Western Australian Youth Orchestra:  guest conductor
1986-1988 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music Big Choir:  resident conductor
1986-1988 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music Chamber Orchestra:  guest conductor
1986-1987 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music Motet Choir:  resident conductor
1986 Nedlands Music Association Adult Community Choir:  resident conductor
  University of Western Australia Collegium Musicum  (chamber choir) resident conductor
  I Cantori:  (chamber choir) resident conductor

COMMUNITY CHORAL DIRECTION

2014 Auckland Dawn Chorus:  multi-choir event at Auckland's Wynyard Quarter
2011-2014 Grey Lynn Community Choir:   (founding conductor)
  Performing at Titirangi Festival, mounting own concerts, participation in Sing with the APO,
  flash-mob of Tim Minchin’s Plastic Bags at New World Supermarket,
  Dawn Chorus events at Wynyard Quarter 2012 & 2013.
2008 Women with Latitude (Adelaide):   25-voice women’s acapella choir. (guest conductor)
2006 Asante Sana - AfroFusion Choir (Alice Springs):
  40-voice community choir performing African and other music. (guest conductor)
2004 Trojan Women Chorus:    50-voice women’s chorus performing original music for theatrical production.
  (founding conductor)
2002-2010 Tutti Ensemble: 60-voice mixed chorus comprising singers with a disability and from the community
  Performances include accompanying Teddy Tahu-Rhodes at Bundaleer Forest Weekend, 2007;
  Carols by Candlelight (Elder Park), 2007.  (resident conductor)
1989 WA Trades and Labor Council Combined Union Choir:   (founding conductor)
  SATB choir performing songs of work and protest.
1988-1989 The Laredos:  Sixteen-piece SATB choir performing music from 16th to 20th centuries. (founding conductor)

VOCAL COACH:

1989-2014    various coaching for theatre and music-theatre singing auditions, performances, etc.

For The Australian Opera:

Berg Lulu  (responsibilities included cover-conductor, conducting cover-calls, production calls.)
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor - assistant conductor
Gluck Orphée et Euridice - assistant conductor
Alan John The Eighth Wonder - World Premiere - assistant conductor
Puccini Tosca - assistant conductor
Sitsky The Golem - World Premiere (responsibilities included conducting cover-calls.) - assistant conductor
Wagner Tristan und Isolde - assistant conductor
  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (responsibilities included conducting cover-calls, extra-chorus preparation.)

PERFORMED REPERTOIRE (small representative - not COMPrehensively maintained):

Brahms Hungarian Dance # 5
  Symphony # 4
Britten Choral Dances - Gloriana
Bruch Violin Concerto # 1
Charlton When Dinosaurs Invented Flowers (World Premiere)
Griffin The Kingfisher Dances (World Premiere)
Handel Messiah
Haydn Symphony # 102
Milhaud Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
Moussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Mozart Symphony # 29 in A major K.V. 201
  Missa Brevis in F major K.V. 192
  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A major K.V. 219
  Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G major K.V. 313
Matthew Ottley Allegory of the Bull  (World Premiere)
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite II
Rix My Life, My Love  (World Premiere)
  Northern Lights, Southern Cross (World Premiere)
Stravinsky Histoire du Soldat
Tippett Five Negro Spirituals - Child Of Our Time
Vaughan-Williams Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra
Vivaldi Gloria in D major

Anthems, Chanson, Frotolla, Madrigals, Masses, Motets, Carols and Rounds by:
Arcadelt, Bach, Bennet, Brant, Byrd, Castellino, Certon, Claudin, Clemens non Papa, Debussy, De Nola, 
Di Maio, Dowland, Encina, Farmer, Gesualdo, Gill, Handl, Ives, Janequin, Jones, Josquin, Lassus, Lawes, Luzzaschi,
Marenzio, Messiaen, Monteverdi, Morley, Mozart, Palestrina, Purcell, Ranier, Ravenscroft, Seiber,
Stravinsky, Tallis, Vaughan-Williams, Weelkes, Wilbye and Willaert.

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