“The orchestra performed in top form. Under the baton of Brett Weymark, the punchy orchestral delivery was unmistakably modern.”
South China Morning Post, May 2015
“...Brett Weymark deserves a medal for conducting Purcell's long and multi-faceted score with such style and panache.”
Clive Paget, Limelight Magazine. April 2016
He has held positions with The Song Company, Opera
Australia, Pacific Opera, Sounds Baroque, Cantillation and The University of
Western Sydney. He is currently the
Music Director of The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - a post he has held since
2004.
He has worked with many of the major musical
organisations in both in Australia and internationally including the BBC Proms,
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Sydney
Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the
Antipodes, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony
Orchestra. He has appeared in
productions with Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera and has recorded a wide
range of films scores from Happy Feet to Mad Max: Fury Road. He appears on a number of ABC Classic
recordings both as a conductor and a singer.
He has conducted many world premieres of works by
composers such as Peter Sculthorpe, Dan Walker, Paul Stanhope, Elena Kats
Chernin, Andrew Schultz and Matthew Hindson. He initiated the ChorusOz project at the Sydney Opera House in 2005
which now draws hundreds of singers each year to explore choral works over the
long weekend in June at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. The 2015 event attracted over 1000 singers. He has chorus mastered for Sir Simon Rattle,
Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paul McCreesh and Edo de Waart
amongst others. His performance of
Purcell’s King Arthur was nominated
for a Limelight Award and his work as chorus master on Stravinky’s Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms (directed by Peter Sellars) won a Helpmann Award.
Recent conducting highlights have included the world premiere of Paul Stanhope's Jundamurra with the Sydney Symphony as well as conducting their Tea and Symphony and Mozart in the City series, Purcell's King Arthur for Brisbane Baroque, ANZAC Day concerts for Queensland Symphony, Haydn's Creation with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach's St John Passion with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Handel's Jephtha for Canberra Choral Society and acting as Chorus Master in Adelaide Festival's production of Saul. Future engagements include conducting Handel's Messiah for New Zealand Symphony.
