This Thursday the senior acting and classical vocal students at WAAPA will perform both sonnets and songs inspired by the bard. It'll be a thoroughly entertaining romp including settings by Korngold, Gounod etc. and of course Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music". Having both chorus-mastered this work and sung it myself I'm looking forward to conducting it. The singers sound fabulous, so come along!

Bookings and information here.

I'm delighted to have been invited to the Canberra International Music Festival this May to work with Roland Peelman, The Song Company, ACO2 and The Wallfisch Band as Sprogis-Woods-Smith Assistant Conductor.

It's a huge and exciting program - the Sprogis-Woods-Smith Young Artists will be performing in five separate programs in five days! We'll be performing the Mozart Requiem (Maunder edition), Brahms Requiem, choral works by Lili Boulanger, Poulenc, Ravel and Distler, a re-construction of the famous 1914 Christmas Truce, the Australian premiere of Rued Langgard's epic Music of the Spheres and the finale of Nigel Westlake's Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli.

If you're in the area, bookings can be made at

It's official - I will be conducting the Australian Première of Joby Talbot's epic "Path of Miracles" at Perth's Government House Ballroom with The Giovanni Consort on the 26th November this year. To say I am excited is possibly the understatement of the year. See this earlier post for more information about this life-changing work. Now to choose the right director/choreographer ...

Government House Ballroom, Perth
St George's Terrace
Wednesday 26th November, 7.30pm

Book your tickets here!
http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=78299