Conducting

Dr Luke Dollman has conducted throughout Europe and Australasia, working with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Helsinki Philharmonic, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Halle Staatskapelle, Lausanne Sinfonietta, and all of Australia’s professional orchestras. In the field of opera he has been a regular guest at the Finnish National Opera, and has also worked for Opera Australia, the State Opera of South Australia, and the Netherlands Opera. 

Luke is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and furthered his studies at the Aspen Festival of Music and Accademia Chigiana in Italy. He is Senior Lecturer in Conducting and Deputy Director at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide. 

For further information on the program, contact luke.dollman@adelaide.edu.au.

Dr Carl Crossin is an Associate Professor of Music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music and is well known and respected throughout Australia and internationally as a choral conductor, educator, composer and clinician. 

Carl has had extensive experience as a choral conductor and clinician throughout Australia and has been the conductor of a wide variety of choirs in Adelaide over the past 40 years.

As a composer and arranger many of his choral arrangements and compositions have found their way into the repertoire of of local, interstate and overseas choirs. 

In 2007, Carl was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to music and was inducted in the South Australian Music Hall of Fame in 2021. 

For further information on the program, contact carl.crossin@adelaide.edu.au.

Bryan Griffiths is a conductor with extensive experience across the professional, educational and community music spheres. Specialising in wind ensemble direction, he is also proficient in orchestral and chamber music, having conducted the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Band of the South Australian Police, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony, Adelaide Youth Orchestra, New Adelaide Ensemble, Unley Concert Band and the Adelaide Summer Orchestra of which he was co-founder. He was appointed Music Director of the Adelaide Wind Orchestra in 2019 and the Robert Hower Winds of the Adelaide Hills Chamber Players in 2023. Since 2022, Bryan is the current director of the Wind Orchestra at the Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide), where he also lectures in ensemble, performance and composition classes. Before focusing on conducting, Bryan performed as a horn player with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Sinfonia and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, where he served in a full-time capacity between 2010–2015.