Sydney Children’s Choir – Lachlan Massey

Elective session

Choir-aerobics

Imagine this: your concert is two weeks away and your school choir has three songs to prepare. Some of the notes are tricky. Lunchtime rehearsals on a Friday are distracted by hula hoops rolling through the door from next-door; they’re coming from the co-curricular circus club (which you’re often reminded is why some of the kids can’t make it to your rehearsal). What to do??

Enter… Choir-aerobics! Getting your choir moving has never been so achievable! Learn notes, lock in solid part-singing and overcome student fatigue all while staying in your own seating plan! 

In this session, Lachlan Massey is joined by 45 enthusiastic Sydney Children’s Choir choristers to show you some strategies for physicalising music learning. They’ll help you make good use of limited rehearsal time while also positively impacting students’ vocal technique and the overall sound of your school’s singing ensembles. Good times? All the time.

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Lachlan Massey

Lachlan Massey

Music in Me Summit presenter

Lachlan Massey is a young Australian conductor and composer. Lachlan is Artistic Associate at Gondwana Choirs, and has prepared the choirs for performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Theatre Company and for six Prime Ministers of Australia.

He is privileged to conduct the Sydney Children’s Choir’s Junior Performing Choir, a selective extension ensemble for young people ages 9-14 who show especially strong musical aptitude. As a composer and director of opera, and especially those for young audiences, Lachlan’s productions with ‘The Children’s Opera Project’ have been called “ingenious…petite productions for hungry young minds” (Time Out). The company has performed children’s operas such to packed houses at The Concourse and the Sydney Opera House, as well as regional venues.

Lachlan’s most recent opera, ‘Lennie’s Great Adventure’, is based on the story of a boy called Lennie Gwyther, who rode his chesnut pony to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932. The opera receives its premiere at the Sydney Opera House in May 2026 prior to a schools tour, and performances at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre in August. 

Lachlan is a primary music teacher at SCEGGS Darlinghurst, and Director of Choirs at Shore School. He is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

About Sydney Children’s Choir

Since 1989, the Sydney Children’s Choir has developed a reputation as a leading treble vocal ensemble. Their Junior Performing Choir consists of young people of upper primary and lower secondary age who love singing and regularly represent the choir at events of national significance, as well as appearing in concert the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and on regional tours.