Music Theatre

Our head of department, George Torbay AM, is in constant demand as a director, musical director, vocal coach, vocal arranger and regularly gives master classes.

His work has taken him around the world working with singers, musicians, as an academic and artistic programme advisor. 

A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (ECU) and University of New England (Grad Dip. Ed.), Erin has worked in theatre, music theatre, television and film for the past two decades. As a performer, she has toured Australia, Southeast Asia and New Zealand in major musicals for Opera Australia, GFO, Really Useful Group and TML.

As a director and creative, Erin has worked on Phantom of The Opera, South Pacific and My Fair Lady for Opera Australia, She Loves Me for Hayes Theatre Co, and various other major productions around the country.

Erin has a passion for working with students to develop their skills in the performing arts. She is also fluent in Auslan and is working to become an intimacy coordinator for stage. 

Terence has been a professional actor since 1980, appearing in scores of productions on stage and screen.

He is among the country's most experienced acting teachers, and has published two books on the subject of Australian acting.

He achieved a Masters with a dissertation on Chekhov, and his PhD is a sociological study of theatre practices.

Martin is a lecturer, music director, repetiteur and pit orchestra pianist who joined the ECMT teaching staff in 2020. He recently completed a PhD in Composition and also holds a Bachelor of Music Education with First Class Honours.

Martin has over 50 professional, amateur and educational creative team credits, including playing keyboard for the Australian productions of The Wizard of Oz, Mamma Mia!, Aladdin, Chess and 9 to 5. Martin was the MD for the 2022 ECMT graduation production of Legally Blonde: The Musical, directed by original Broadway cast member Nikki Snelson, and will also MD the Class of 2023's Sweeney Todd and A Chorus Line.

Outside of music theatre, Martin is a published composer, Arts writer and critic who writes for his own website, Sharp Four Reviews, and has by-lines at the Australian online magazines FilmInk and CutCommon.

Joseph is a director and choreographer working in music theatre, contemporary dance, opera, theatre and ballet. After graduating from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Joseph was awarded 2009 Outstanding Emerging Artist at Australian Dance Awards and nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Male Dancer.

His choreography has been widely performed in Australia and internationally, and Joseph was the recipient of the 2013 Tanya Liedtke Fellowship - awarded to one Australian choreographer every two years.

From 2015 Joseph has been a contributing creative with Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University and directed and choreographed the sold out and extended production of The Producers in Brisbane, Queensland. He was the Artistic Director of Altitude Theatre before becoming a full-time lecturer in Music Theatre at Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide.

Paul has been with the Bachelor of Music Theatre since inception as repertoire coach and accompanist. Show credits as a resident music director include Shrek, In Pieces, Mamma Mia!, Songs for A New World and Spring Awakening.

Paul brings industry experience as a keyboard deputy from national tours including 9 to 5, Frozen, Mamma Mia!, The Sound of Music and Singin’ In The Rain.  He was the Associate Music Director for the national tour of Friends! The Musical Parody and has worked on a plethora of state-based productions as music director (Mary Poppins, Wicked, Kinky Boots, Avenue Q, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).

Paul holds a Masters of Secondary Education in Media and Music and runs a senior social choir program across the state for the aged care provider ACH Group.