Music

I sing, play guitar, record, mix and write. I am currently studying towards a Bachelor of Music at the University of New England.

I sing Tenor in Dynasty8, an eight-voice chamber choir specialising in the most beautiful of choral music, and in the Sassical Clingers, a one-year project by Melinda Reed, a community choir with a focus on madrigals.

I perform a variety of things with my partner Melinda Reed, including opera, folk and contemporary covers.

I also enjoy recording, mixing and producing music.

Past Performances

  • 2018 November 17-18 Mullumbimby Music Festival with Dynasty8 (REST and Love, Loss and Longing programmes)

  • 2018 July 28 Performed REST with Dynasty8 at Tugun, Queensland

  • 2018 May 9 Mama Kin Spender "Golden Magnetic" album launch - Midnight Choir backing

  • 2018 Feb 24 Festival for Elizabeth, Brunswick Picture House. Tenor in Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art, The Plaintiff (the cross-gendered, jilted bride, Angelina) in Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury

  • 2017 December 13 Amatori Choir and Soloists, St Martins, Mullumbimby. Tenor.

  • 2017 November Mullumbimby Music Festival - Midnight Choir backing for Mama Kin Spender

  • 2017 May 18 Private House Concert - guitar and vocals.

  • 2016 December 4 Handel's Messiah, Lismore Civic Centre. Conducted by Richard Gill. Tenor chorus.

Lasciatemi morire - audition piece

  • Posted on: 10 February 2016
  • By: agittins

The first of my two audition pieces for entry to UNE's Bachelor of music. Still soooo much room for improvement but it got me through :-)

Lasciatemi morire is from Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Arianna. It is Ariadne's lament at being abandoned by her love on the island of Naxos.

Huge thanks to Jason Barry-Smith who got me to this stage with a sum total of three singing lessons in my life!

The Foggy, Foggy Dew - audition piece

  • Posted on: 10 February 2016
  • By: agittins

The second of my two audition pieces for entry to UNE's Bachelor of music. SOOoooo much room for improvement but it got me through :-)

The Foggy, Foggy Dew is a traditional English folk song, this being the version created and popularised by Benjamin Britten. It is a somewhat cheeky tale of a love from years ago complete with thinly-veiled justification for following one's heart.

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