About | Weaver Artist Management

Weaver Artist Management was founded in Melbourne in 1991 by Jeff Weaver and offers representation worldwide with particular specialisation for Australia & New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Jeff Weaver’s earliest background was as one of the most high-profile boy trebles to emerge in Perth, Western Australia during the 1970’s. By the time he was thirteen years of age he had appeared as Harry in Britten’s ALBERT HERRING and in the lead role of Menotti’s AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS for WA OPERA, he was the solo voice of the ABC’s LET’S JOIN IN live weekly national radio broadcasts and had been widely recorded as a soloist with the WA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

He was the first full-time student majoring in Vocal Performance as part of the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA’s Bachelor Of Music degree and by the time he was twenty-one he had released, on the EMI label, a solo recital recording of Beethoven and Schumann lieder and Handel, Tippett and Quilter songs and was one of Perth’s most established concert singers, being regularly engaged as soloist for such oratorios as MESSIAH, the ST. JOHN and ST. MATTHEW PASSION, ELIJAH and CARMINA BURANA by the WA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, the PERTH ORATORIO CHOIR and the UWA CHORAL SOCIETY and had appeared as Acis in Handel’s ACIS & GALATEA and Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO and as tenor soloist in such works as Monteverdi’s VESPERS OF 1610, Handel’s ALCINA, SEMELE and ALEXANDER’S FEAST, Stravinsky’s LES NOCES and Britten’s ST. NIKOLAS all for David Tunley’s renowned, COLLEGIUM MUSICUM.

During the 1980’s he was based in London, initially studying with legendary new-music soprano, Jane Manning. He went on to appear in principal roles with the ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL in its productions of Handel operas in London and in Italy and France including singing the role of Apollo in Handel’s ALCESTE in seasons at London’s WHITEHALL BANQUETTING HOUSE, at Reggio Emilia’s TEATRO MUNICIPALE VALLI and in the THEATRE ROYALE at the CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES under the baton of French conductor, Jean Claude Malgoire with his period-authentic orchestra, LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE DU ROY. He was regularly presented by the Ghent-based company, WERKGROUP OPER singing oratorio and concert performances in Belgium, particularly the classical period symphonic masses and sacred works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. He was engaged as an oratorio soloist for performances throughout the UK, including for Bach’s CHRISTMAS ORATORIO at ST. JAMES’S PICCADILLY and at ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE in London where he also appeared as Ugone in Handel’s FLAVIO with conductor, Anthony Shelley.

During this same period he appeared for NEW SADLERS WELLS OPERA in such roles as Nanki Poo in THE MIKADO and Camille de Rossillon in THE MERRY WIDOW and appeared in Gian Carlo Menotti’s own Christmas 1986 production of AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS for the ROYAL OPERA COVENT GARDEN.

Jeff Weaver was the first Artistic Director of MECKLENBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA which he co-founded in London in 1985 with conductor, Anne Manson and, now ROYAL OPERA COVENT GARDEN house director, Daniel Dooner. He sang Ferrando in COSI FAN TUTTE, then Basilio in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and Tamino in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE in its annual summer seasons in Mecklenburgh Square in Bloomsbury as well as appearing as tenor soloist in the company’s Bach and Handel oratorio concerts in London, Edinburgh and Paris.

Courtesy of Mecklenburgh Festival Opera 1987