Richard Chew
Professor Richard Chew is Director of the Arts Academy at Federation University Australia. He studied at the University of Birmingham and the Royal College of Music, and began his professional career as a singer, before focusing on composition under the mentorship of Judith Weir CBE and Mark Anthony Turnage CBE. He subsequently undertook Advanced Composition studies with Louis Andriessen and Peter Sculthrope at Dartington.
Richard co-founded the professional a cappella vocal ensemble The Shout with fellow composer Orlando Gough in 1999. This group recorded and toured internationally for over a decade, winning many awards and establishing ‘a blueprint for 21st century choral singing’ (The Times).
Richard’s choral work Tall Stories became the centrepiece of a ‘staged song-cycle’ directed by Rufus Norris (Director of the National Theatre), which toured the UK, USA and Vienna Festival.
He collaborated with Norris on two further projects, the opera The Spirit Level, for English National Opera’s Youth Company The Knack, directed by Rupert Goold CBE, and Sleeping Beauty, for Young Vic Theatre Company (Barbican and New Victory Theatre, Broadway).
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