Session information
Choir is a team sport!
Primary choirs are both an art and a science, and helping children discover the joy of singing together is a great privilege as a teacher.
For this workshop, Lachlan Massey is joined by the Sydney Children’s Choir’s Junior Performing Choir, comprising young people of primary and lower secondary age.
Discover what they love about choir and a add a few tips and tricks to your notebook on how to make your choir sound great and have fun too!
Presenter
Lachlan Massey
Lachlan Massey is a young Australian conductor and composer. He is Artistic Associate at Gondwana Choirs, working under Lyn Williams AM. In his time with the choirs, Lachlan has prepared them for performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival and for six Prime Ministers of Australia. He is privileged to conduct the Sydney Children’s Choir’s Junior Performing Choir, a selective extension group 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 children’s operas such as Pinocchio!, Hansel and Gretel and Mulga Bill’s Bicycle have been performed to packed houses at The Concourse and the Sydney Opera House, as well as regional venues. His stage works as a composer include Pinocchio! (2018), Hansel and Gretel (2021) and Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (2024), and as music director; Aija Draguns’ Max and Moritz (2022), and Malcolm Fox’s Sid the Serpent who Wanted to Sing (2023).
Lachlan has presented workshops for ACO Foundations and has been a guest conductor for the RSCM Junior Schools Choral Festival and NSW State Music Camp. Lachlan is a former Young Ambassador for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Lachlan’s choral works are published by Singscore.
