Producer & Production Manager
I am an experienced music production manager and concert producer, working across genres and organisations to deliver performances at the highest level and built around amazing music.
I produce the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s recital and chamber program – Up Close – and have worked as a freelance producer and tour manager for the ACO, Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Apex and many others. In these roles I have tackled video programming, keyboard/Mainstage and drum programming, score preparation and development, and programming and artist contracting. I deliver over 200+ performances every year.
I am a busy concert stage manager with venues and ensembles, with a work history that includes Sydney Opera House, City Recital Hall, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms, Royal Opera and The Barbican. Until 2022 I worked in the music department of the National Theatre in London, before returning to Australia to freelance.
Recent project highlights
Total Immersion (ACO, 2023 & 2024) – an immersive concert experience for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, working with director Nigel Jamieson to present a complex program at the ACOs new home on Pier 2/3. Multiple ensembles performed across the venue and the audience moved between them, supported by a sophisticated lighting design, video projection and audio electronic augmentation. A repeated performance where we activated multiple spaces simultanously
Ensemble Offspring: The Surge regional NSW tour (2023) – went on the road with the ensemble on a multi-date tour of regional NSW, liaising with venues and building the performance with a skillset that ranged from driving the van, setup of instruments, supervision of lighting and audio, merch sales and scheduling.
When George Met Arnold (Sydney Opera House, 2024) – in addition to preparing scores and parts for excerpts, I project managed this performance involving live orchestral performance and filmed scenes. Created lighting and video cue lists, ensured files for video and for scores were delivered to the orchestra, and cued the performance in line with the live music, ensuring perfect synchronisation and flow.
Showcaller, Scorereader, Surtitler
I am an experienced and in-demand showcaller for concerts and theatrical performances, calling highly specialised musical events for a wide range of clients including the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms. This has included multi-venue festivals (with simultaneously occuring performances called to score from an ‘air-traffic-control’ control room) as well as more traditional concerts with cuing of performers and of technical cues and effects in a prepared score.
I am also a specialist in Score Reading for live broadcast: marking-up and calling musical cues for the camera crews and Director/Switcher on live performances for the ABC and for the Sydney Opera House. Highlights of 2023 included a 7-day ‘Inside Out’ festival at the Opera House in which we projected full length concerts every day live onto screens on the forecourt; the MSO Classic 100 Gala in 2023 & 2024 broadcast on the ABC, and the Brian Cox Symphonic Horizons gala for SOH and broadcast on the ABC.
I am an experienced surtitle operator working for clients including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House, and the Barbican on scores ranging from classical-era core repertoire to contemporary and experimental operatic works.
Education And Outreach
I offer training and professional development to actors, creatives, and musicians, with a decade of experience in industry and a positive and enthusiastic attitude to sharing musical knowledge.
Music has always been an essential part of theatre and film, and innovations in staging and casting have made musical literacy and confidence more important than ever for actors, stage managers, and creatives.
I have been working with music and musicians for more than a decade. I believe that everyone working in the arts should have the confidence and the skills to engage fully with the musical elements of any production.
I trained as a composer, arranger, and music editor, and have worked across classical music, opera, musical theatre, film and bands. Specialising in unorthodox concerts and new musical theatre, I have collaborated with composers, arrangers, music directors, directors and choreographers across a wide range of genres and projects.
I offer two group workshops for artists in professional training (or recently graduated).. One equips actors and creatives with the confidence to tackle musical problems and have exciting conversations about music. The other is a more technical training in score reading giving stage managers (or anyone who needs to closely follow a musical score) the skills they need to call to a score, operate lighting and sound to music, and to plan a production around the musical score.