Patrick Burns

Patrick is currently the Chief Conductor for the Ipswich City Orchestra (Queensland, Australia) and the Music Director for Melbourne based group XL Arts Inc. (Victoria, Australia)Patrick began his conducting studies whilst completing his under-graduate studies at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. He is an alumni of the Symphony Australia conductor development program which has seen him participate in workshops across Australia with Orchestra Victoria, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and also in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia under the guidance of Christopher Seaman, Johannes Fritzsch, Sebastian Lang-Lessing and Baldur Brönnimann. After returning from a year abroad travelling and studying in Germa