Timothy Chung

Timothy Chung is a conductor, music educator and performer based in Sydney with over three decades of experience. He has worked with various ensembles and educational institutions throughout his career.

He has served as Musical Director of the Sydney University Musical Society, Principal Conductor of the Macquarie University Singers, and Foundation Director of VOX. Additionally, Timothy has been a Guest Conductor with the Gondwana Matthew Doyle Choir (Young Men’s Choir).

In the educational sector, Timothy has had such roles as Master of Chapel Music at Trinity Grammar School (1991 – 2011), Head of Music Performance at St Aloysius College (2013 – 2017), and Artistic Director at Santa Sabina College (2018 – 2023).

Currently, Timothy focuses on conducting and performing as a countertenor. He has collaborated as a soloist and chorister with groups including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Choir, Cantillation, Pinchgut Opera, ACO Voices, Sydney University Graduate Choir, and St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, where he is an Alto Lay Clerk.

Timothy is also the countertenor in Consort 8, an early music ensemble based in Sydney that performs sacred and secular music. Consort 8’s performances take place at St Paul’s Anglican Church (Burwood) and Santa Sabina Chapel (Strathfield).

Since 2009, Timothy has conducted Handel’s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall, an experience he deeply values.

Organist Mark Quarmby

Mark Quarmby graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium studying organ under Norman Johnston and piano under Marjorie Hesse. He has given recitals throughout Australia, Europe, North America, Asia and New Zealand. For over 20 years he was associated with the music of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, playing the organ for national live broadcasts, visits of the Queen, funerals of State governors and national memorial services. In August 2009 he was appointed Director of Music at St Stephen’s, Macquarie Street.

In Europe he has played in the Cathedrals of St Paul’s, London, Canterbury, Salisbury, Oxford, Winchester, Lichfield, Westminster Abbey plus Notre-Dame, Paris, with recitals in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, and Holland. In 2009 he gave the opening recital of the American Guild of Organists Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, playing a whole program devoted to organ music written by Australian composers.

He has been the President of the Organ Music Society of Sydney, has served on the committee of the Royal School of Church Music (NSW) and is currently a National Director of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia and teaches piano, organ and musicianship at St Patrick’s College, Strathfield, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and privately. ​

2024 Soloists

Since the inauguration of the annual presentation of Messiah, it has been the policy to give young and emerging singers the opportunity to sing the principal roles.

We are delighted to have these soloists performing with us this year.

2024 Soloist (Baritone)
Henry Wright