Formal Study & developing artist programs
Conducting Forest Collective, 2018
Diploma in Conducting, International Conducting Masterclass, Olomouc, Czech Republic, June 2017
Grafenegg Festival Ink Still Wet 2015
Masters of Music Research, Conducting Performance from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne 2014 - 15
Malthouse Theatre Besen Family Artist Program 2014
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Cybec Program for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2010-11
Bachelor of Music Performance (Hons.) Victorian College of the Arts 2007 - 10
Conducting the Moravska Filharmonie, June 2017. Image by Daria Kalinovska.
appointments
Assistant Conductor (to Carolyn Watson) Melbourne Youth Orchestra 2019
Artistic Director, Forest Collective 2009 - present
Assistant Conductor (to Warwick Stengards) Geelong Symphony Orchestra 2018
Guest Conductor, Moravsak Filharmonie 2017
Guest Conductor & Curator, New Music Studio Melbourne Conservatorium of Music 2015 & 16
Musical Director, Performance Space & Carriageworks, Requiem Mass: LGBT/Working Title by Holcombe Waller 2016
Musical Director, Ranters Theatre & Malthouse Theatre Come Away with Me to the End of the World 2015-16
Assistant Conductor (to Fabian Russell), Australian Youth Orchestra 2015
Musical Director, Opera Studio Melbourne Curlew River 2015
Guest Conductor, Australian National Academy of Music Orchestra 2014
Assistant Conductor (to Brett Dean), Melbourne University Orchestra 2014
Assistant Conductor (to Warwick Stengards), Opera Studio Melbourne Die Zauberflöte 2014 & 2017
Assistant Conductor (to Christopher Hogwood), Australian Youth Orchestra 2012
Musical Director, In Good Company Carmen 2011
Musical Director & Chief Conductor, RMIT Symphony Orchestra 2010-11
Private Lessons
Mathias Pintscher 2015
Denise Ham 2015
David Aronson 2015
Tim Weiss, SoundSCAPE New Music Festival, Italy July 2015
Brett Kelly 2011-12
Benjamin Northey 2010, 2014-15
Dr. David Kram 2007-10
Conducting Holcombe Waller's Requiem Mass with Performance SPace at Carriageworks, Sydney, February 2016 Image by Hospital Hill
Master-class
Alim Shakh, Moravska Filharmonie, Olomouc, Czech Republic, June 2017
Mathias Pintscher, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Ink Still Wet at the Grafenegg Festival, Austria, August 2015
Tony Arnold, SoundSCAPE New Music Festival, Italy July 2015
Luke Dollman, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music 2015
Fabian Russell, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music 2015
Mark Shiell, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music 2014 and 2015
Benjamin Northey, Melbourne Youth Music Summer School conductors development 2013
Malcolm Yuen, Australian Band and Orchestral Conductors Association 2012
Christine Storey and Harley Mead, A.N.C.A. Honour Choir conductors scholarship 2009
Residencies
Artist in residence at Billilla Mansion 2015-16
Conductor in Residence for the University of Melbourne Orchestration class 2010
awards
Grafenegg Festival Bursary 2015
Australian Post Graduate Award 2014-15 awarded by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
Faculty Small Grant 2014 & 2015 awarded by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
Project Grant 2009 friends of the VCA