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CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE 2018 Conductor of the Junior State Band Camp of NSW.

2018-2019 Band Conductor of the Training Band at Manly Village Public School. 2017-2019 Band Conductor of the Junior Band at Manly Vale Public School.

2011-2013 Conductor and Artistic Director of the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the North Coast Performing Arts Association (NCPAA) in Coffs Harbour.

2008 Vice-conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Music Conservatory in Bruck an der Leitha (Austria).

2012-13 Founder and Conductor of Brass Bonanza workshop and concert at the Mid North Coast with Lisa Mályusz. (An initiative to combine students from regional NSW from Inverell, Coffs Harbour, Armidale, Bellingen, Grafton.)

2014-2015 Assistant conductor and tutor of the Ku-ring-gai Youth Orchestra. 2014-2017 Casual band conductor at Warrawee, Epping and Denistone Public Schools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AS A PERFORMER 2012-2020 Guest principal and 3rd horn of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

2016- Assistant principal casual musician with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
2016 Principal horn player with the Royal New Zealand Navy Band on their annual New Zealand tour.

2009-2010 Associate Principal French horn Player (Full time Position) with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Greece.

1993-2010 Casual horn player with the following leading European chamber music ensembles and symphony orchestras: Vienna Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Amsterdam Opera Company, Les Musiciens du Louvre- Grenoble, Vienna Baroque Soloists, Klangforum Wien, Neue Oper Wien, Graz Philharmonic, Orchestra of the State Opera of Hungary, Adelaide Symphony, Festival Orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival (section principal of the Wagner Tubas). Invitations to perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on tour, Wiener Akademie and Concentus Musicus Wien and the Salzburg Festival.

1995-2004 Member of the brass quintet Brass Company.  
1995-1997 Member of the innovative jazz group Music Experience. 
1997-2008 Member of the woodwind quintet Sans Frontiéres (concerts in Austria, Germany and Hungary). 1994-2002 Percussionist and vocalist of the entertainment music band Balkan Combo.

2019 Sydney Microtonal Festival.

AS A SOLOIST

2017 Coramba Chamber music festival with Paul Dean (Head of Winds at Griffiths University, Australian composer), Greta Bradman (soprano, ABC Classic FM presenter).

2016 Canberra International Chamber Music Festival.

2014 Bellingen Music Festival-Solo performance and horn duo of contemporary Australian, Austrian and Hungarian composers (together with Lisa Mályusz).

2005 Concerto for Horn By W.A.Mozart with the Graz Kammerphilharmonie. 2004 B minor Mass by J.S.Bach with the Vienna Bach Soloists (on tour).

2003 Performance of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto for 2 Horns by J.S.Bach with Hector McDonald (former member of the Berlin Philharmonic) in Vienna.

COLLABORATING CONDUCTORS AND COMPOSERS

Kirill Petrenko (Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orch.), Andriss Nelsons (Principal Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orch., Boston Symphony), Fabio Luisi (Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York), Péter Eötvös (guest conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orch.), Ulf Schirmer (Principal Conductor of the Munich Radio Symph. Orch.), David Zinman (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich), Manfred Honeck (Principal Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orch.), Claus-Peter Flor, Mark Minkowsky, Markus Stenz, Asher Fisch, Philippe Jordan (Principal Conductor of the Paris Opera House, Vienna Symphony), Marko Letonja, Leopold Hager, Milan Horvat, Thomas Zehetmair, Heinrich Schiff, Raffi Armenian, Arturo Tamayo, Martin Turnovsky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gustav Kuhn, Günther Neuhold, Beat Furrer, Hans Zender, Friedrich Cerha, Johannes Kalitzke, Martin Sieghart, Jordi Savall, Györiványi-Ráth György, Sian Edwards, Erwin Ortner, Johannes Prinz.

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