Emblem Artists in Association with
the Australian Conductors Academy
Emblem Artists is now working in association with the Australian Conductors Academy (ACA) managed by the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra (TSO).
Emblem Artists will be providing industry mentorship with the ACA’s fellows and we are thrilled to now be working closely with the current cohort Daniel Corvaia, Euan Safety, Aaaron Wyatt and Sara Duhig.
Whilst the brilliant Benjamin Northey and TSO (in partnership with the network symphony orchestras) will be guiding these budding stars through their on the podium conducting career, Emblem Artists will be providing them with the support that goes into building a successful career off the podium.
Daniel Corvaia
An emerging Australian conductor, musician and educator, Daniel is working with leading orchestras across Australia and New Zealand. In addition to his fellowship of the Australian Conducting Academy (ACA), he is also the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s CYBEC Assistant Conductor to Jaime Martín.
Through these positions, Daniel is working with leading orchestras across Australia and New Zealand — including the Tasmanian, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney, West Australian, and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Auckland Philharmonia. Daniel has also participated in masterclasses with renowned conductors Benjamin Northey, Asher Fisch, Eivind Aadland, Martyn Brabbins, Giordano Bellincampi, and Otto Tausk.
Euan Safey
Euan Safey is a New Zealand-born conductor and pianist appointed this season as the Australian Ballet’s Conducting Fellow and as one of the Australian Conducting Academy Conducting Fellows. Euan has studied under notable Kiwi conductors and received tutelage from NZSO Principal conductor Gemma New and other international guest conductors including Miguel Harth-Bedoya, André de Ridder, Mark Wigglesworth, Alice Farnham and Keitaro Harada.
Recent and future conducting engagements in Australia and New Zealand have included positions and performances with Opus Orchestra, NZSO National Youth Orchestra and Australian Youth Orchestra, Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra and Wind Orchestra, Adelaide Summer Orchestra, St Matthews Chamber Orchestra, Bay of Plenty Symphonia, Trust Waikato Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra Waikato and the University of Waikato Orchestra, amongst many other ensembles.
Sara Duhig
Sara Duhig is a widely regarded conductor of great versatility based in Perth, Western Australia. Sara’s work encompasses classical repertoire, contemporary works, and film music. She is passionate about creating engaging and meaningful musical experiences, and bringing orchestral music to a broad range of communities.
This season alone, Sara has conducted the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in concert. Highlights included conducting the world premiere of Anne Cawse’s The King Walks in the Orangerie and the Australian premiere of Imogen Holst’s Persephone with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as part of its She Speaks concert. Over the past seasons, Sara has also worked with international conductors including Asher Fisch, Mark Wigglesworth, Eivind Aadland, Martin Brabbyns, Otto Tausk and Anja Bilhmeier.
Aaron Wyatt
Aaron is an accomplished violist, conductor, composer, programmer and academic. He has played in a wide variety of ensembles across many different genres and is a long-term member of the award winning Decibel New Music ensemble. As well as performing with the ensemble, Aaron is the developer behind the Decibel ScorePlayer app, the group’s cutting edge, animated graphic notation software for the iPad.
An emerging conductor, Aaron was nominated for a Helpmann Award for his role as musical director of the premiere season of Cat Hope’s opera, Speechless, and is the director of Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first First Nations chamber ensemble. An advocate for Indigenous classical music and musicians, he premiered Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s work, Nanyubak, for viola and orchestra as a soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and during a conducting engagement with them he became the first Indigenous Australian to conduct one of the state symphony orchestras in concert. He has since gone on to work with the ASO, TSO and SSO and conducted the premiere of the first opera in Noongar, Gina Williams’ and Guy Ghouse’s Koolbardi Wer Wardong with the WA Opera.