Andrew Wailes

Andrew Wailes enjoys a busy performing and teaching schedule both in Australia and overseas, as a conductor, chorus-master, workshop leader, professional singer, concert compere, reviewer and an experienced musical adjudicator. He is widely regarded as one of Australia's leading symphonic choral conductors, having directed many of Melbourne's major choirs over a twenty-five-year career that has seen him perform an impressive repertoire of major symphonic choral works, as well as a wide range of orchestral works, opera, chamber music and a capella repertoire. Andrew began his musical studies as a flautist, and as a chorister in various Royal School of Church Music choirs, later studying advanced orchestral conducting with the late Robert Rosen and voice with David Ross-Smith. He complete