Qwire Admin Team and Music Team

Lachlan is humbled to give back through music to his community as Qwire's Music Director. He's witnessed the power of the arts to create stronger communities, especially through celebrating the human voice! His natural enthusiasm and passion for choral music is evident and he is a confident arts communicator.

Lachlan's ethos for community music is that striving for musical excellence should be uplifting, energising and entertaining for all those involved both on and off the stage.

He holds opera performance and music teaching degrees from the University of Queensland and has worked with a range of community ensembles from wind bands and orchestras to handbells, mandolins and choirs. He is currently the conductor of the Barbarian Orchestra in Newcastle.

When not conducting, Lachlan is an arts and culture fundraiser working for Not For Profit creative writing centre Story Factory in Sydney. He's also currently studying an MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management within UNSW. Across all his pursuits Lachlan is driven to protect and grow equitable access and participation in arts and culture in Australia.

Jenny is a classically trained singer and teaches singing professionally. She also performs as a soloist and in various groups in different genres. Jenny assists Qwire on a regular basis, either leading the occasional Qwire rehearsal, performance at community event, or vocal workshop, and assisting with voice coaching.

Jess teaches us about rhythm, note length and how to read music. She plays piano and percussion for all our rehearsals and many concerts and community events.

Anne-Marie is our head honcho and has been endorsed by the membership to help steer Qwire through the year. Anne-Marie is also the official spokesperson for Qwire and chairs our committee meetings and will make regular announcements at rehearsals.

Please familiarise yourself with our Treasurer. His job is a substantial one - responsible for tracking all revenue and expenses. He is also the one who will be following up with members in regards to paying their membership fees.

Chris is the Convenor's right hand, and handles all administrative matters for Qwire including preparing agendas and minutes of our committee meetings, processing general enquiries received and generally assisting other committee members with administrative matters.

 

Our Music Librarians liaise with our Music Director and put together our music packs as well as providing loans services to other organisations who may wish to borrow music from our library and also seek out music books for special numbers that we may be performing.

 

Our Events Managers are responsible for managing Qwire's participation at public events and logistical arrangements for our concerts which include venue liaison, stage and technical support, budgets and ticketing.

Martin's role is to receive enquiries from people who would like to book Qwire, and to secure venues for our concerts and other activities.

General Committee Members assist in the running of Qwire across a range of roles and duties.

 

 

 

 

The social media team ensure that all our fans are kept up to date on the latest Qwire events. This is done through our social media feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

 

Out Website Managers work diligently to ensure our website remains current with correct information and fix any reports of broken links or other website issues.