Sydney Children’s Choir

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.