Guy Simpson

Musical Director

Guy Simpson has been working as a Conductor, Orchestrator, Musical Director and Musical Supervisor for 45 years.

He has enjoyed working with Opera Australia over the past 8 years. Productions include My Fair Lady (directed by Julie Andrews), Evita (starring Tina Arena), Cinderella, The Phantom of the Opera (on the harbour and at the Opera House), Miss Saigon, and West Side Story (on the harbour).

This year on Guys and Dolls he has been especially excited to create some new orchestrations with Jack Earle (making this their 3rd project together)

Guy has been involved internationally with Miss Saigon for 35 years conducting or supervising productions in Australia, Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Seoul, The Netherlands and Japan. His work on The Phantom of the Opera has a similar long history with productions in Australia,  Auckland, Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Brazil, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing and Seoul.

Other international productions include Cats (Australia, New Zealand), Chicago (Australia, Hong Kong) and We Will Rock You – the QUEEN musical (Australia, Japan)

Recent projects in Australia include Carousel in Concert,  Into The Woods at Belvoir St Theatre, Anna O’Byrne’s solo show Becoming Eliza and Do You Hear the People Sing – a concert of the music of Claude-Michel Schonberg.

Other productions in Australia – Muriel’s Wedding, The Wizard of Oz, Dream Lover, Prima Donna (the opera by Rufus Wainwright), Passion, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Geoffrey Rush), Love Never Dies (the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera), Les Miserables, Cabaret, Company, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Pirates of Penzance, Snoopy, Seesaw, Zorba, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, Call me Madam, Mack and Mabel, The Music Man, They’re Playing our Song, Carousel, Camelot, Little Me, Follies, Promises Promises and Gypsy.

As an orchestrator recent projects include Into The Woods, Ladies in Black and Dream Lover.

As a producer of cast recordings he has produced the albums of Muriel’s Wedding and Dream Lover for Sony and 2 cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera in Korea.