SMC Appoints a new Accompanist

After an exhaustive search we are delighted to have appointed Dr.Brieley Cutting as the new accompanist for the Sydney Male Choir.

Raised on a farm in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Brieley studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, and at the Royal College of Music in London courtesy of a David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship, the Tait Memorial Trust and the Australian Music Foundation.  

In 2006, she was National Keyboard Winner of the Symphony Australia ABC Young Performers Awards, performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for ABC live radio and television in the Grand Final. In 2010 she received second placing in the Kerikeri National Piano Competition in New Zealand. Brieley was granted a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in 2013 and three years later was awarded a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Griffith University.  

Brieley has performed as soloist and chamber music collaborator at venues in London, Brussels, Salzburg, and New Zealand, and in Australia’s leading concert venues.Brieley has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and the Nizchny-Novgorod Philharmonic.

We are delighted to have Brieley join the Choir, and look forward to her collaboration with Musical Director, Warwick Tyrrell.

Gary Withyman