As our Guest Conductor we are delighted to welcome local musician, composer, arranger, singer – and now conductor – Kevin Barker.

Kevin’s music is steeped in a deep connection and empathy with the natural world, and is permeated with a strong affinity for landscape, and a striving to place the human soul within it—to understand and affirm our intrinsic kinship with the world that we inhabit.

In his early career as a freelance jazz musician and composer/arranger, Kevin’s works were played by jazz luminaries such as Don Burrows, Phil Wilson, James Morrison, and the Australian Jazz Orchestra.

Kevin now concentrates on composing contemporary art music, and more recently he has developed a love for choral music and art song. He has written music for AVÉ (Australian Vocal Ensemble), Voces8, the Song Company, Cantillation, Leichhardt Espresso Chorus and Bel A Cappella, and is composer-in-residence with Moorambilla Voices. Branching out into choral conducting is a new phase in this direction.