Music Director

CCS Music Director

Dan is a Canberra based composer, conductor and performer and one of Australia’s most in-demand choral specialists.

His compositional output includes commissions for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Gondwana Voices, Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, Voyces Youth Choir, the Birralee Blokes, the Nittany Valley Children’s Choir of Pennsylvania and Halcyon.

His Mass of Deliverance was a finalist in the 2015 Art Music Awards presented annually by the Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australian Music Centre. The judging panel said of the work: ‘With fluid and long cantabile choral lines and atmospheric flugelhorn solos, this Mass is an attractive and useful addition to the repertoire’.

Dan is also an active arranger, regularly producing work for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and record label ABC Classics. His work for television includes the iconic 2009 I Still Call Australia Home advertising campaign for Qantas.

As a performer, Dan is a member of the Canberra-based Luminescence Chamber Singers, Sydney-based Cantillation, and Pinchgut Opera. He has been a member of The Song Company and was a founding member of early music ensemble ‘The Parson’s Affayre’.

A keenly sought-after conductor, Dan has appeared as Chorus Master for Cantillation, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Choruses, Music Director of the Canberra Community Chorale, and is currently Music Director of the Canberra Choral Society and the Oriana Chorale.

Dianna Nixon, 2017
Tobias Cole, 2011 - 2016
Dr Peter Pocock, 2005 - 2010
Judith Clingan, 2004 - 2005
John Gilbert (Acting), Sept 2003 - Dec 2003
Thomas Burge, Jan 2002 - Sept 2003
Christoph Moor, July 2001 - Oct 2001
Piroska Varga, Jan 2000 - June 2001
Robyn Holmes, 1993 - 1999
Christopher Lyndon-Gee, 1989 - 1993
Hans Gunter Mommer, 1985 - 1989
Donald Hollier, 1976 - 1985         Vale Donald Hollier....
Ayis Ioannides, 1971 - 1976
Wilfred Holland, 1962 - 1971
Jane Malone, 1958 - 1961
Ronald Penny, 1952 - 1957