Music Director

Dan Walker

CCS Music Director

Since 2019 Dan Walker has been the Music Director of the Canberra Choral Society. Dan regularly performs with Cantillation, Pinchgut Opera, Luminescence Chamber Singers, Clarion quartet and is a guest member of The Song Company.

As a composer, conductor and performer Dan is one of Australia’s most in-demand choral specialists. His music is performed worldwide and includes commissions for Gondwana Voices, Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, Voyces Youth Choir, the Birralee Blokes, the Nittany Valley Children’s Choir of Pennsylvania, and Halcyon. His large work, Mass of Deliverance, was a finalist of the 2015 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards.

Dan is also an active arranger and regularly produces 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.

Former CCS Music & Artistic Directors


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