Simon Kenway

Conductor

Background: Australian. Education: Bachelor of Music (Piano), Post-Graduate Diploma (Opera), Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Post Graduate Diploma in Opera, Royal College of Music, Pacific Opera Artistic Director.

OA repertoire: Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, The Gondoliers, La Traviata, L’elisir d’amore, Sweeney Todd, The Mikado, La Bohème; The Magic Flute, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly (Tour); Music Director for Opera Australia’s Community Choirs Project 2012–present; Meet in Beijing Arts Festival Opera Gala concert.

Other Companies: Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni (WAO) L’elisir d’amore (Opera in the Park for WAO); Midnite (OA Tour with Windmill); La Cenerentola, Otello; Orfeo ed Euridice (Spectrum Now Festival); Pops in the Park with Ben Folds (WASO); Stella and the Moon Man (AYO); Australian Ballet; Aldeburgh Productions in UK; concerts for SSO, TSO, CSO, TQO, Willoughby Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Performing Arts Centre; Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.