Staff

Christopher is Music Director of the Sydney University Graduate Choir. The Choir, Orchestra, Soloists and Graduate Choir, perform regularly at the University of Sydney's Great Hall. The major choral repertoire as well as lesser known works are performed.


Christopher Bowen completed his conducting studies at the Vienna Conservatorium following his degree in music at Melbourne University. Since then he has conducted numerous orchestras and choirs in Austria and Australia.

While in Vienna he conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and was a staff member of the Vienna Conservatorium. Since his return to Australia he has worked with the Victorian State Opera; Opera Australia; the Australian National Orchestra and Choir and has been a staff member of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His conducting repertoire embraces the major orchestral and choral works from the 16th century to contemporary works.

As a composer, Christopher has received critical and public acclaim for his considerable body of work which comprises orchestral, choral works, instrumental, chamber music and works for the stage. Many of his commissioned compositions and arrangements have been performed and broadcast on ABC, ORF (Austrian Radio) and 2MBS-FM.

In recent years major commissions have produced orchestral and choral works such as Triste, Triste; Chorea; Requiem (dedicated to those who died whilst fighting for East Timor’s independence); the satirical Démocratie based on Arthur Rimbaud’s prose-poem and Tenebrae.

A number of CDs of his work are available, including a recording by the Australian National Orchestra and Choir.

In 2007 he conducted the inaugural City of Sydney Sings Messiah massed choir concert, led by the Graduate Choir, at the Sydney Town Hall.

Christopher has been awarded Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney. He recently received the Stephen Lardner Memorial Award for Excellence in Adult Education.

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Talented pianist, Angela Tsai, completed her Masters in Performance at Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2001, having studied with David Miller AM and Daniel Herscovitch. She also studied with Paul Dyer, the Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and noted Russian pianists, Natasha Vlassenko and Oleg Stepanov.

Angela has worked with some of the finest musicians in the country including the Head of the Sydney Conservatorium vocal unit, Dr. Michael Halliwell, oboist, Josef Hanic, cellist, Georg Pedersen, and clarinetist, Mark Walton.

Angela also plays the harpsichord, organ and the harmonium. In 2001, she was invited to play the harmonium in a Wagner concert at the ABC Ultimo Center in Sydney, under the baton of Maestro Felice Cillario, as well as appearing on center stage alongside the virtuosic violinist, Nigel Kennedy, for the launch of his CD 'Kennedy plays Bach'.

Her interest in music lies in all areas and styles ranging from baroque to jazz, cabaret, and musicals. In 2001, she was invited to take part in the Cabaret Convention held in Town Hall.

Angela's busy schedule also includes teaching the piano both privately and in schools .

She was the first recipient of the Horace Keats memorial scholarship at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.