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Schools attended:

Victorian College of the Arts secondary school (VCASS)Australia, classical performance (clarinet)
Interlochen College of the Arts, Michegan, USA
Victorian College of the Arts, (Tertiary) Australia - composition
Box Hill College, Australia - sound production


Music and Art experience:

2007
Three months travelling through Australia and Asia

Senior accounts manager for world wide business education advertising in the Thursday Career and Sunday Times education section of `TheTimes' newspaper, London

Accepted for composition with www.screenedmusic.com
Composers in the Screened Music Network are selected by a panel of experts working in film, tv and music and represent the very best of the UK's screen music composers.

Travelled through Madagascar for field recording and compilation of indigenous traditional and contemporary music.

Composing tracks for the documentary on Mangwana NGO - Madagascar


2006
Travel to Southern India

Moved to the hills of Tuscany to compose music

Working wth Opera singers in Tuscany

Played clarinet and saxophone for the band SFC Stripped for Cash.

Recorded CD 'SFC' with 'Strip for Cash' and performed at music venues in Melbourne and Sydney

Recorded music on home studio with the artists Qun Wong, Adelaide Williams and Jack Berryman.
Composed commissioned work for Performance art piece 'Rebirth'


2005
Composed commissioned work - Dancing Sleeves and Pirate Nights - for costume designer Lee Qun Wong for production 'Elusions of Grandeur'
Composed Sound track with Jethrow Woodward for short film 'Phase'
                                                                                Box Hill Tafe Sound Production course

2004
Composed sound track with Jack Berryman for short film 'Night of the Wild Boar' by Alex Clutterbuck using a mixture of live instruments, electronic sound and sound manipulation.
Box Hill Tafe Sound Production course

2003
Travel through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos recording local sound and music
Composed and performed with 'Rhyno' (Melbourne based Producer) for the show 'Fish n Chips' performed in the town hall of Frankston.
Organised, marketed and hosted a monthly Drum and Bass music night 'Mechanism' at the club 'J36' on Johnston St, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Performed regularly with the group 'True live Vibe' - a live Hip Hop group - in Melbourne

2002
Member of the band 'Vinegar Tom'
Further developed understanding of electronic music and production skills

2001
Studied Fire Juggling (twirling)
Started experimental composition and producing on computers


2000
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) - composition course.
Composed sound tracks to student movies of the VCA film school
Composed 3rd Orchestral piece

1999
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) - composition course.

Runner up for Australian youth orchestral award.

Exhibition of Drawings - Castlemaine - produced from China trip (1997)

1998
Performed original compositions for the Cill Railig Art foundation, County Kerry Ireland - fund raising evening.

Gained a scholarship to Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan, USA for composition and improvisation.

Busking with clarinet and guitar at markets throughout Provence

Guest clarinetist with Ernie Odoom on Saxophone in Jazz bar, Geneva.

1997
Traveled to Shanghai and Beijing and produced a folio of drawings for exhibition.

Orchestral work ( France 1996) performed by VCASS orchestra.

1996
Part of an artist in residence program, Mas de Graviers Pourriers, Provence, France - composed first orchestral work 'France'

Formed the band - why did the fish cross the road.

Recorded the three movement piece 'Bush Scape' for the film 'Making art making a living'

1995
Gained entrance to Victorian College of the arts secondary school (VCASS) studying classical performance - clarinet

Attended a course in traditional Balinese music in Bali - Ubud . Learned to play the Tin Click (bamboo marimba)

composed the three movement piece 'Bush Scape'

1991
PNG attended international secondary school Port Moresby. Lived on the Fine Arts campus, Port Moresby

Studied Kung Fu, Port Moresby.

Return to Melbourne and  began playing Clarinet with music teacher and Jazz Tuba player,  Pip Avent


Non music related work experience:
2007   Sales
2004 - 2006 National Accounts Manager - for Wealth Creator magazine, Melbourne Australia     
2005 - Worked in the sculpture studio of Shona Nunan - chasing and finishing bronzes for exhibition.
2004 - Carpenters Apprentice - Paul Nunan
2003 - Customer service - juice bar in St. Kilda, Melbourne.
2002 - 2003 - Bar Staff - the 'Lounge' on Swanston St, Melbourne.
2001 - Worked as a dish hand at the 'Curry Family Hotel' on Wellington st, Melbourne.

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