David Wickham - Accompanist

 

David Wickham is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at WAAPA. Formerly he was a member of the music staff of the Australian Opera Studio, where he has been music director for productions of Julius Caesar, Rodelinda, Bastien and Bastienna, Trouble in Tahiti, Manon, Don Quichotte, Carmen and Così fan Tutte, as well as Elijah and four cabarets. The Studio’s second cabaret on ABC Classic FM was voted “best Sunday Live broadcast of 2005”. Before emigrating to Perth in 2003 he was resident in London.

 

He has broadcast recitals on ABC Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and UK Classic FM, and appeared in London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room. As a repetiteur David worked for English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera, also spending nine seasons with Garsington Opera. In 2004 David conducted Bernstein’s Candide at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and is much in demand as an accompanist in WA.

 

David Wickham is a member of the music staff of the Australian Opera Studio, where he has been music director for productions of Julius Caesar, Don Quichotte, Carmen, Così fan Tutte, Rodelinda, Manon, Bastien and Bastienna and Trouble in Tahiti, as ell as Elijah and three cabarets.

 

"David Wickham led from the front with a superb display of musicianship, playing the orchestral reduction with extraordinary flair and directing at the same time. He provided the bounce and rhythmic lift which permeated the entire production" wrote Opera Opera of Così fan Tutte. Opera Opera also described him as "one of the finest exponents of keyboard skill when dealing with orchestral transcriptions".

 

Before emigrating to Perth in 2003 he was resident in London. He has broadcast recitals for ABC Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and UK Classic FM. The Australian Opera Studio’s 2005 cabaret, of which David was music director, won an award for the best live broadcast in the ABC's Sunday Live series.

 

As a repetiteur David worked for English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera, also spending nine seasons with Garsington Opera.

 

In 2004 David conducted Bernstein’s Candide at the WAAPA, and is much in demand as an accompanist and jazz pianist in WA. He has partnered Sara Macliver at Perth Concert Hall.