Guest Conductor - Pemulwuy! Youth Choir
Paul Jarman, (born 1971) Paul Jarman is a widely acclaimed Australian
composer, performer, musical director and educator. Paul is most well known as
a lyricist and composer of choral music, a world music multi instrumentalist,
and a facilitator of community inspired collaborations. As a cultural
ambassador he has performed extensively throughout Australia, Europe, Asia,
North America, the Middle East and the Pacific with theatre productions, dance ensembles,
Aboriginal-Anglo Celtic performance groups, choirs and orchestras; in
festivals, special events, schools and towns as a conductor and musical
director, and a member of Australia’s iconic first ‘world music’ ensemble
Sirocco since 1996 representing Australia in Pakistan, India, Taiwan, Nepal,
Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore and the Philippines for the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Musica Viva. Paul plays piano, clarinet,
harmonica and saxophone but specialises in ethnic wind instruments including
Irish whistle, bagpipes, zurna, Chinese flutes,
jaws harps and harmonic singing. He has performed on a variety of Australian
feature films, documentaries, commercials and IMAX productions and composed the
music for several award winning adventure films with the renowned filmmaker
Mike Dillon.
Paul’s music is popular
all over the world as he continues to write about some of the most inspiring
people of our time including Jessica Watson, Terry Fox, Helen Keller, Ernest
Shackleton, Aung San Suu Kyi, Pemulwuy and Mary MacKillop. In 2010 his piece
for the 40th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jnr was performed for
President Barack Obama in the White House. Paul has also written and performed
music for events in the Western Front, including
a premier under the Menin Gate in Ypres and the D-Day 60th Anniversary
in Normandy. He has toured as a resident conductor/performer with a variety of
choirs to France, England, Germany, Austria, Italy, China, Belgium, Czech
Republic, Canada, New Zealand, USA and Switzerland and he conducts
choral events all over Australia. He has
composed music for some of Australia’s large special events including the Centenary of
Federations, the Bicentenary of the Battle of Vinegar Hill, Year of the
Outback, The Olympic Arts Festival, The Rugby World Cup, The Works Festival,
The Australian Rivers Forum, United Nations Year of the Mountain, ANCA, The
Queensland 150th and the Australia Day Spectacular Darling Harbour and
Canberra.