PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Diploma in Social Sciences (Anthropology) Sydney Uni, 2009

• Master of Music (conducting) Sydney University / Conservatorium of Music (1999- 2000)

• Symphony Australia: Professional Development Symposium (conducting), under Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti; Queensland Symphony Orchestra, (1999)

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ORCHESTRAL AND CHAMBER MUSIC EXPERIENCE (Violinist)

• Elektra String Quartet: Director and Violinist (1993 to date)

• New England String Quartet: Violinist (1983-84)

• Sydney Symphony Orchestra: First Violins (1981-82); casual violinist (1985-89)

• Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: visiting casual violin (1985- 90)

• Queensland Theatre Orchestra: Principal Second Violin – 1980

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CONDUCTING

• Sydney Youth Orchestras: casual conductor and tutor (2002)

• Sydney Chamber Orchestra: performance projects (1992, 95 and 2000)

• Sydney Opera House Orchestra: performance projects (1998)

• University of New England Chamber Choir-Musical Director (1983-84)

• University of New England Chamber Orchestra (1983-84)

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REPETITEUR

• Repetiteur for Post Grad students, Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Masters in Conducting course, 2000-2001

• Sydney Metropolitan Opera: Black River, 1988 

• Sydney Metropolitan Opera:The Remedy, 1989

• Australian Opera: Countess Maritza (1987)

• Australian Opera: The Gypsy Princess, 1990

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KEYBOARDS

• Sydney Chamber Orchestra: directing from continuo

• Synergy-Hyperprism - works by Varese and Tourque

• Belvoir Street Theatre: Theatre Sports (1991-92)

• Paranormal Music Society (1987 - 1995)

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TEACHING

• Composer in residence, Sydney Youth Orchestras (2007)

• Lecturer in music - University of New England (1983-84)

• Visiting Lecturer in Strings, Orange Regional Conservatorium, 2001- 2003.

• Guest Lecturer in music, MacDonald College of the Performing Arts, 2002-03

• Classroom teacher and choirmaster, St Aloysius Intermediate School, 2000.

• Head of Strings - Sydney Grammar School (1986-87)

• Private teaching practice, to date

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SELECTED WORK AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

• Artistic Director for Elektra String Quartet and Elektra Collektiv  (1992 to present). Performance projects have included

1. Interface* (quartet, sax, video and computer, 1994)

2. Blurring the Boundaries* (concert series I and II, 1995)

3. Elektra Collektiv and Bone flute project* (strings, sax and multimedia, 1996)

4. Like waves on an ocean (quartet, didgeridu, percussion, multimedia, 1996)

5. Luminous* (concert series I, II and III, for quartet, sax, didgeridu, percussion and multimedia, 1997)

6. Interplanetary Dreaming (quartet and sampler, didgeridu, percussion and on-stage computer-driven multimedia, 1998)

7. Songs of Psyche (soprano, quartet and sampler, didgeridu, percussion and on-stage computer-driven multimedia with video-2006)

8. Heart of the Matter (narrator/singer, strings, winds percussion x4 , didjeridu, directed from piano 2011*

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• AD for Arafura Ensemble, Darwin: visiting artistic director/conductor (1998 – 99)

• AD for Gannon’s Forest Gothic: Shopfront Theatre for Young People, 1998

• AD for Dreamseeding Project* (Brisbane Ethnic Music and Arts Centre) Brisbane Festival (1998)

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* recorded and broadcast nationally on ABC Radio

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COMPOSITION

(Represented Composer status with the Australian Music Centre)

See Works Listing

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RECENT WORKS INCLUDE:

• Gregorian Funk, String Quartet no, 5, for string quartet, Australia Council funded, 2015

• Slavic Grooves & Meditations, for flt, vla, bass, perc, pno, 2014

• Reflections on Life Death and Transience for viola, violin & poet. European tour, 2014

• Yamatji Man – Music Theatre work for narrator/didjeridu player Mark Atkins and ensemble (sax, strings, keyboards and percussion), 2012.

• Sanctus, for unaccompanied choir, (ssaatb) 2008

• As Night follows Day…(Symphony No.1) (recorded ABC Classic FM, 2000)

• In Times of Change and One in the Rhythm – ballet scores for wind instruments, marimba, piano and percussion. Commissioned – Festival of Pacific Arts, Noumea, New Caledonia 2000.

• Score to Home of the Blizzard for wind instruments, keyboards and percussion, revised 1999. Commissioned – Sydney Film Festival.

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DISCOGRAPHY

• String Lines (works commissioned from Westlake, Edwards, Hindson, Stanhope and Crivici; ABC Classics, 2012)

• Flat Earth (Released by ABC Classics; works for string quartet, didgeridu and percussion by Romano Crivici, 2001)

• Timeless (works for string quartet and sampler, didgeridu, percussion and piano,1999)

• Luminous (works for string quartet by Romano Crivici, rec. 1997)

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