Keynote Presenter

Robert has spent much of his life looking for ways to share his love of Renaissance and 20th/21st century music, often by creating ground-breaking projects which present music to audiences in innovative ways. He founded I Fagiolini in 1986; with them he has presented their signature projects including Simunye, The Full Monteverdi, Tallis in Wonderland, How Like An Angel (with Australian contemporary circus group C!RCA), and Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama (for singers and dancers based on the music of Gesualdo), which premiered at the Barbican in May 2015.

Keynote Presenter

Mark O’Leary OAM is one of Australia’s most active choral conductors, widely respected for his work with Young Voices of Melbourne, Exaudi youth choir and Gondwana Voices. With these ensembles has produced thirteen CD recordings, toured all states and territories of Australia and made sixteen international tours to Europe, South Africa, North America, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Samoa. Mark has presented many workshops on choral music education throughout Australia and internationally.

Keynote Presenter

Jennifer has directed the Singapore Youth Choir (now the SYC Ensemble Singers) since 1986, winning accolades and re-defining the choral idiom together. Trained as a composer, her focus has been to create a library of new music for choirs. She brings music of the SYC and Singapore on her stints as guest conductor, to choirs and audiences in France, Japan and most recently, Taiwan. Last year, she conducted the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir (Budapest) in a concert of SYC commissions and gifts.