Welcome to Olivia Swift! Joining the Music for Canberra team as Program Convenor, Youth Programs Music for Canberra is thrilled to announce that Olivia Swift will be joining the Music for Canberra team as Program Convenor (Youth Programs). Conductor, composer and educator Olivia Swift makes musicians out of potential. She knows how to lead people to grow to love and embrace challenge that once seemed impossible. She relishes rehearsals and getting stuck right into the nitty-gritty, all for that revelatory moment where the music “just clicks”. That sense of accomplishment and confidence in her musicians drives Olivia, and the belief that all music should be accessible to all people, regardless of experience. Based in Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, 2024 marks
Olivia’s ten-year anniversary conducting the Kompactus Youth Choir, through
which she has seen them through projects such as the Canberra International
Music Festival, the Flowers of Peace series and multiple
collaborations with artists such as Roland Peelman, Chris Latham, Sally
Whitwell, John Rotar and Graeme Morton. She also directs the long-running Woden
Valley Youth Choir, now in its 55th year, who each year present the Canberra
Carols by Candlelight and can be seen often around town performing the
Australian National Anthem in the local Ngunnawal language. Olivia has sung with The Australian Voices, the
Oriana Chorale, Luminescence Chamber Singers and the sextet Sidenote, touring
with these groups around Australia and internationally. As a lover of choral and vocal music, she has
written many choral works. She studied composition at the ANU School of
Music with Jim Cotter and Larry Sitsky, and completed a Masters degree at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Paul Stanhope, on the topic of contemporary
madrigals. She has been commissioned by various choirs such as the Sydney
Children’s Choir, The Australian Voices and the Sydney Chamber Choir. We are so excited to have Olivia on board!
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