Neil McEwann
MMus, PhD
Neil McEwan trained as a chorister and organist at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Auckland, New Zealand under the direction of Professor Peter Godfrey. He continued his studies through the Royal Schools of Music, the Trinity College of Music, London and the University of Durham. While resident in France and Germany, he studied Gregorian chant, orchestral and advanced choral conducting techniques.
He has conducted and adjudicated across the South Pacific, Europe, England, Canada and the USA. He specialises in Gregorian chant semiology and palaeography and Early Music performance practice, and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1994 for further overseas study in these areas.
Neil McEwan is Director of the Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, the Conservatorium Choir, and the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence. In January 2007 he toured the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence to England and the USA. The Choir was invited to be the resident choir at Westminster Abbey for ten days for the second time. Most recently, he has transcribed Gregorian chants from the medieval manuscript, the 1328 Rimini Antiphonale which is on exhibition at the NSW State Library, to be performed for the first time in six hundred years in concerts at the State Library in 2008.
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