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BERLIOZ BRETT KELLY |
Requiem, Op. 5 Guest Conductor |
A COLLABORATION WITH THE MELBOURNE INTERVARSITY CHORAL FESTIVAL
PRESENTING PARTNER
One of Australia’s leading resident conductors, over the past decade Brett Kelly has regularly conducted the Melbourne, Tasmanian, Sydney, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, along with The Queensland Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and award winning seasons with Australia’s premier contemporary opera company, Chambermade Opera. Brett is also Principal Trombonist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and during his career has occupied, or been offered similar positions in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Opera House Orchestra, the Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini” (Italy) and the Singapore Symphony.
Brett has been the featured Conductor on numerous CD recordings for labels such as NAXOS, Tall Poppies and ABC Classics with his recording of the Rodrigo Concertos with Slava and Leonard Grigoryan being nominated for a 2006 Aria Award. For his conducting of The Hive by Nicolas Vines (Chambermade Opera - 2006) he was nominated for Green Room Award as Best Conductor of an Opera. This production eventually won the Green Room Award for Best Production of an Opera in Melbourne, in competition with major productions from Opera Australia.
Between 1989 and 2004 Brett was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of The Academy of Melbourne, a chamber orchestra formed from his colleagues in the MSO. Specializing in works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert the “Academy” was widely regarded as one of Australia’s outstanding musical ensembles. Since 2003 he has been Music Advisor/Resident Conductor of ChamberMade Opera.
Brett has conducted the orchestral scores for numerous international films, with ten due for release in 2009/10 including Shake Hands with the Devil, The Bank Job, Children of Huang Shi, Knowing, South Solitary, Beneath Hill 60, Tomorrow, when the War Began, The Way Home, The Blue Mansion, Legend of the Guardian, Cloudstreet, Sanctum, Killer Elite and Baz Luhrmann’s epic, AUSTRALIA.
Brett is a passionate advocate for orchestral music and the arts. He has at times presented highly successful radio segments engaging the wider community with the excitement and wonder of the symphonic world. Over the past 10 years he has also presented many leadership programs - focussing on music and orchestras - to senior managers from major companies including Boeing and the ANZ Banking Group.
Brett studied at the NSW State Conservatorium and was Principal Trombonist in the Australian Youth Orchestra in 1978 and 79. He joined the orchestra of Opera Australia in 1980 before taking up his current position of Principal Trombone in Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in November, 1981. He has been a core member of three of Australia’s finest contemporary music ensembles, Flederman, The Seymour Group and Elision. He has maintained a close connection with new Australian music throughout his career and has conducted the premiere of more than two hundred new works. He has performed as soloist with the orchestras of Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland.
Brett studied conducting with the distinguished Austrian/Romanian conductor Robert Rosen and then undertook advanced study with prominent conductors and teachers in Europe finishing in Czechoslovakia at a course with six prominent conductors including the then Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek.
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