

She also presented at the International Federation of Choral Music World Choral Expo in Macau in November and is currently enjoying her first subscription season as Music Director of Sydney based community chamber choir Coro Innominata. In 2015 she has enjoyed an extensive tour of China, Hong Kong and Inner Mongolia with Sydney Children's Choir, with whom she regularly works. Sally is very active as a conductor, composer and accompanist in choral music. Although they are by no means the only accompanists in Sydney.

Her most recent release I was flying is a collection of her own compositions in the art song, choral and chamber music genres, which enjoyed five weeks in the top ten of the ARIA Core Classical Charts, was nominated for the 2015 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album. On this website you will find listings for all our Guild members, which you can search by suburb. All Imperfect Things solo piano music of Michael Nyman won the 2013 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album as well as Best Engineer for ABC Classics very own tonmeister Virginia Read, the first time that a woman has ever won this award. Her sophomore album The Good, the Bad and the Awkward is a truly unique compilation of film music where she played not only piano but toy piano, harpsichord, recorder and melodica. Her debut album Mad Rush: solo piano music of Philip Glass won her the 2011 ARIA for Best Classical Album. In 2014 Sally travelled to Los Angeles and New York City to perform again with Philip Glass, his complete piano Etudes, in addition to performances for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Australia as part of their recent exhibition of portraits by American artist Chuck Close.Īs a solo recording artist, Sally has four albums to her name. Recent solo concert appearances for Sally have included the world premiere of the Philip Glass Complete Piano Etudes for Perth International Arts Festival and Ten Tiny Dancers, an all-singing-all-playing-all-dancing cabaret piano recital for the Famous Spiegeltent season at Arts Centre Melbourne. She has given solo and chamber music recitals for community radio and several metropolitan and country music clubs, and has undertaken post-graduate accompaniment studies at the Robert Schumann Conservatorium, Dusseldorf and Trinity College, London.Award winning musician Sally Whitwell maintains a busy freelance career as pianist performer, conductor, composer and educator from her base in Sydney, Australia. Mr Millers studio produced many of Australias finest young accompanists. As a pianist she has performed with Kuringai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vivace Trio, as well as being the repetiteur for the Blue Mountains Opera. David Miller was on the staff of Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1980 to. She has also taught privately in the fields of pianoforte, violoncello, musicianship, theory, accompaniment and HSC music.Īs a cellist Michele has performed with Kuringai Philharmonic Orchestra, Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Penrith Valley Sinfonia, Penrith Symphony Orchestra and the Blue Mountains Opera Orchestra.

She has taught piano at Ravenswood School for Girls, Cranbrook School, Oakhill College and Macarthur Girls’ High School. She has been an official accompanist for several eisteddfods including the City of Sydney and Blue Mountains. Michele Gore is a music tutor with the Department of Education for special music camps in country areas, accompanist/repetiteur for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and the Director of Logan’s Music School, Burwood. In our Tutor Spotlight series, we learn a little more about the team behind the music!
