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Team

Meet the creative team behind Finding Our Voice.

Image: Genevieve Lacey
Credit: Sarah Walker

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Genevieve Lacey

Artistic Director & Executive Producer
Musician and arts advocate Genevieve Lacey connects people and ideas through sound, creating and performing multi-artform pieces that combine her skills as performer, composer, and curator. Her poetic, sensual works are experienced in concert halls, public art, installation, film, theatre, dance, radio, TV, and the digital realm.
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Martel Ollerenshaw

Executive Producer
Martel Ollerenshaw is a creative producer and an international arts broker. Through her company Arts & Parts, she works with artists, organisations and festivals to create, produce and disseminate work that is pioneering and often genre blurring.
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Paul Mason

Executive Producer
Paul Mason is a specialist music consultant, with experience in music, broadcasting and government. From 2009 - 2019 Paul was the director of music at the Australia Council for the Arts, leading the design and implementation of strategies and funding programs for music.
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Alison Beare

Chief Executive Officer, UKARIA
Alison has over 25 years experience as a senior administrator and advisor. She was appointed to her current role in 2013 and is responsible for implementing the philanthropic vision and mission of both foundations in close consultation with the directors of each Board and the Founder, Ulrike Klein AO. She is also responsible for the overall management of the UKARIA Cultural Centre.
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Deborah May

Filmmaker
Deborah has directed and produced large-scale multi-camera productions, documentaries and promotional films, working with some of the world’s leading artists and arts organisations, as well as producing a number of short, experimental, cutting-edge films with visual and performance artists. Over the past six years Deborah has worked extensively in the disability arts sector in London and in Perth, as a producer, mentor and collaborator.
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Angus Kemp

Filmmaker
Angus (Gus) has been a filmmaker – cinematographer and director - for 20 years, working primarily in documentaries and drama. Based in Melbourne, he often shoots in the Australian outback and also internationally. He has shot a number of feature documentaries and series including Strange Birds in Paradise and Motorkite Dreaming.
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Jakub Gaudasinski

Live Sound & Recording Engineer
Jakub is a studio and live audio engineer, producer, and computational sound designer, working in commercial audio as well as electronic engineering. He frequently contributes to radio, film, and television sound, and to electronic audio hardware development.
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Jude Gun

Live & Digital Producer
Jude Gun is a producer, arts manager and creative collaborator. In a rewarding career spanning more than twenty years, she has held key roles with major festivals, projects and organisations in Adelaide, Melbourne and most recently Hobart, cultivating opportunities for new work, collaboration and presentation.
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Rosie Pentreath

Digital & Communications Producer
Rosie Pentreath is an award-winning digital & social content specialist, writer and podcaster. She has led teams and digital/social strategies at Global (Classic FM), ImmediateMedia (BBC Music Magazine) and Endemol Shine Australia (MasterChef Australia, Gogglebox Australia).
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New Opening Studio

Graphic Design Digital & Web Development
A purpose-driven design practice bringing brands to life. Partnering with like-minded people, we specialise in seamless end-to-end design experiences.
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Fraser Orford

Producer
Fraser is a producer who has spent his career working in commercial theatre and musical theatre, touring both nationally and internationally with shows that include An American in Paris, Disney’s The Lion King, and Almeida Theatre’s 1984.
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Morwenna Collett

Accessibility Consultant
An accomplished leader, consultant and facilitator with 15 years’ experience in government, the arts, not-for-profit and university sectors, Morwenna has worn the hats of CEO, board director, project manager, lecturer, researcher, trainer and advisor.
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Margaret Barrett

Evaluator
Margaret is professor and head of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance at Monash University, and founding director of the Pedagogies of Creativity, Collaboration, Expertise and Enterprise (PoCCEE) research group.
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James Humberstone

Impact Producer, Education & Engagement
James Humberstone is a composer-producer, teacher, and researcher in music education and technology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. James’s recent work includes the Hip-Hopera Agapi and Other Kinds of Love with Luka Lesson, as well as several research publications on music teacher worldview, creativity, pluralism, and activism.
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Jessica Lee 

Education Team
Jessica Lee is a pianist and music educator who recently completed a Bachelor of Music in Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She currently works as a piano tutor and accompanist, working with students of all ages and abilities, where her passion lies in bringing out the potential and love of music in each individual. 
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Lillian Li 

Education Team
Lillian Li is a violinist and music educator who completed a Bachelor of Music Education (Honours) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Passionate about instrumental pedagogy, education philosophies and research, Lillian spends her time tutoring private violin students, teaching music in primary and high school settings, and practising her instrument. 
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Vicky Zhang

Education Team
Vicky is a cellist, illustrator and secondary music educator who advocates for the diverse representation of ideas from music education for young people and all music lovers. She draws from a wide range of personal experiences of both orchestral and chamber music playing in her teaching and creative practices — including the Estivo Chamber Music Program (Italy), the Festival de Música de Santa Catarina (Brazil), the Four Winds Festival, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and a number of performances with acclaimed musicians such as Simone Young, Anthony Marwood and Richard Tognetti when she studied at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. 

About Finding Our Voice

Finding Our Voice is an innovative approach to the music festival. It presents and promotes live performances of eight new musical works across Australia. And, its digital manifestation creates a treasure trove of premium film footage of the live events, plus educational resources and interviews, all illuminating the artists’ stories, creative processes, their diverse voices and approaches.

Finding Our Voice encourages engagement, creativity and skill building around some of the most striking music being made in Australia today. Finding Our Voice is supported by UKARIA, the Australian Government's Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund, and the following individuals and foundations: Ulrike Klein AO, Berg Family Foundation, The Yulgilbar Foundation, The Aranday Foundation, Playking Foundation and Julie Kantor AO.

“Australia is rich in brilliant music makers. Finding Our Voice creates a national portrait in sound of our most exciting composers, working in wildly diverse ways. We’re passionate about introducing them, their  stories, and their music to you. Listening to them helps us hear, celebrate and connect with one another, and our country.”

- Genevieve Lacey, Artistic Director & Executive Producer

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and create, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Partners and Supporters

Finding Our Voice is supported by UKARIA, the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative – and the following individuals and foundations: Ulrike Klein AO, Berg Family Foundation, The Yulgilbar Foundation, The Aranday Foundation, Playking Foundation and Julie Kantor AO.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and create, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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