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featured soloist for the Imax film Equus. He
composed and performed the music for William
Yang’s Objects for Meditation, performing in
Sydney, Brussels, Manchester, Paris, Rome,
Oslo and Rotterdam. In 2003 he was the
Musical Director for the Deadly Awards,
collaborating with Jimmy Little and Troy Casser-
Daley.
In 2005 Paul performed for the international
premiere of his critically acclaimed cantata I Will
Ride at the Jordan Hall in Boston, with the PALS
Children’s Chorus and Boston City Singers, and
Island Heroes, dedicated to the Torres Strait
Island peoples, premiered at the Sydney Opera
House. Paul was composer in residence for Let’s
Sing in Tasmania 2004, also composing music
for the United Nations Year of the Mountain,
Hobart. Paul writes school anthems,
commemorative town songs, and has
collaborated with students to compose song
cycles including Beyond the White Sails
(Caulfield Grammar) and Yennibu, with Aboriginal
leaders and the combined schools of the
Kuringai in Sydney. With this approach to an
appreciation of our identity through music, Paul’s
words and song touch many hearts.
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Andrew DeTeliga
Andrew DeTeliga
(b. 1951) is the main
composer for Sirocco
and was a founding
member in 1980.
His background is in
rhythm and blues
guitar and he played in
numerous groups
throughout the 1970s including Jimmy and the
Boys and Tansy’s Fancy. He now performs on
more than 20 stringed instruments from across
Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East,
including classical violin, blues guitar, bouzouki
and Chinese harp and has toured Australia
and the globe as a cultural ambassador for
three decades.
From a classical repertoire Andrew turned to the
Irish fiddle and to the music of the different
ethnic groups in Australia. His inspired
compositions have been used around the world
by dance groups, ensembles and choirs, in film
and on the stage. He has collaborated with
Aboriginal dancers including Yothu Yindi,
Pakistani Kwali singers, Vietnamese vocalists
and bagpipe bands among many others. His
music has been recorded on 12 Sirocco albums
and played in festivals, events, schools and
unique natural settings across Australia. He has
composed music for Australia Day, the
Centenary of Federation, United Nations Year of
the Mountain, The Wetlands Suite and the D-Day
60th Anniversary in Normandy, where he
performed with Sing Armidale choir in 2004.
Jenny Gregory
Jenny Gregory, Sing
NSW Coordinator and
Conductor, NSW
Department of
Education and Training,
is widely experienced
in developing and
conducting choirs. She
has conducted for the
Primary Choral Concert
Series and the ArtsNorth Festival of Music and
at the Sydney Opera House, and was Coconductor
for the Pacific Schools Games. Since
2000, Jenny has conducted the Sydney Public
Schools Junior Singers, an ensemble of talented
singers auditioned from Sydney metropolitan
public schools. The group also performs with the
State Sing NSW choir. In 1999, Jenny toured the
USA with the Sydney Public Schools Singers as
part of the Olympic Arts Festival, “Reaching the
World”. In 2001, to celebrate the Centenary of
Federation, Jenny produced major Sing NSW
concerts at Corowa and Tenterfield.
In collaboration with Sirocco, Jenny has
produced and conducted the Sing NSW mass
choir in regional areas of the state, including the
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Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo; Jenolan Caves;
University of New England, Armidale and the
Central Coast Conservatorium.
As a regional arts consultant, Jenny has been
active in facilitating a new commissioned work,
Yenibu, composed by Paul Jarman, for the
ArtsNorth Festival of Music 2006, which will
feature a massed choir of public school students
from the Northern Sydney Region performing at
the Sydney Opera House.
The premiere of Young Australians – Voices of
Achievement will be conducted by Jenny at a
performance by Sing NSW at the Sydney Town
Hall in September 2005.
Sirocco
There is no group in Australian history with the
qualifications of Sirocco. The art form of music
and their attitude of inclusiveness have allowed
them to perform with all kinds of musicians,
from Russian rock bands in Vladivostok to a Dan
Boa singer in Hanoi to folk dancers in a tiny
village in Nepal. Formed in 1980, they are
irrepressible, always coming up with innovative
projects. Their signature is their event in the
superb Macquarie Marshes in New South Wales.
The concert was broadcast around the world and
remains a unique celebration credited with
saving the wetlands. Their dozen albums
chronicle Australia’s coming of age in music. In
Sirocco’s music you experience the uniqueness