In Europe and Australia, Warwick Stengårds studied with notable conductors as Peter Eötvös, Vittorio Parisi, Ronald Zollman, Robert Rosen and Vladimir Verbitsky. Following a four-year engagement as Assistant General Music Director (GMD) at the VOLKSOPER WIEN from 2000 to 2004, he is now Erster Kapellmeister at the LUZERNER THEATER and Chefdirigent of the SCHLOSSORCHESTER SCHÖNBRUNN, [...]
Matthew Toogood is a graduate of the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE holding a masters degree in music performance and a bachelor degree in piano performance which also included majoring in German.
He holds the position of artistic director and conductor of the HEIDELBERG CHORAL SOCIETY and the AMADEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, of music director for the VICTORIA CHORALE and [...]
David Stanhope is a freelance conductor and composer. In his early professional life he played french horn as a member of the ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and bass trombone, freelancing with many of the other Australian symphony orchestras. He was also an accomplished pianist and toured as a concerto soloist for the AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION. He [...]
Rick Prakhoff studied classical guitar performance and voice at the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA and conducting at the WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS. His conducting teachers have included Johannes Fritsch, Gustav Meier, Jorma Panula, Noam Sheriff, Robert Rosen, Vernon Handley, David Porcelijn, Graham Abbott, Myer Fredman and Richard Gill.
He was a finalist, in 1997, [...]
Marco Zuccarini was born in Milan where he graduated from the CONSERVATORIUM GIUSEPPE VERDI in piano and clarinet. He went on to post-graduate studies at the ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA, Rome, graduating with honours in chamber music under the guidance of Riccardo Brengola.
In 1990 Marco Zuccarini founded the ORCHESTRA DE TEATRO OLIMPICO DI VICENZA, conducting [...]
Vittorio Parisi studied at the G. VERDI CONSERVATORIUM in Milan with Azio Corghi in composition, with Piero Rattalino in piano studies and with Mario Gusella and Gianluigi Gelmetti in conducting; he has been the only Italian to study with the renowned Russian conductor, Kirill Kondrashin and has studied under Terence Lovett and George Hurst in [...]
Sean O’Boyle is one of Australia’s most experienced conductors, orchestral arrangers and composers.
From 1994 until 1997 he was Music Director at WARNER BROS. MOVIE WORLD on the Gold Coast during which time he was also involved in the music direction at SEA WORLD.
Since 1995 he has been engaged to arrange the music and conduct the [...]
One of the liveliest and most enterprising musical personalities on the British contemporary scene, Cuban-born, Odaline de la Martinez champions the cause of women composers, Latine-American classical music and living composers generally, as well as regularly performing the traditional repertoire.
Brought up and educated in the the USA, Odaline de la Martinez settled in London and [...]
Brett Kelly studied at the Newcastle campus of the NEW SOUTH WALES CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC, graduating in 1979 with both teaching and performing diplomas, his instrument being the trombone. Since then he has held positions as Principal Trombone in the AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA, the ELIZABETH TRUST ORCHESTRA, and the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY; he has appeared on [...]