Our People
patrick togher, director
BEc. LLB (Syd)
Patrick Togher was born in Sydney and graduated in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney.
Whilst studying, he began performing as an operatic and concert tenor – singing his first professional role aged 18. Subsequently, he built up an impressive list of credits with Australia and New Zealand’s leading performing companies. For the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia), Patrick established a repertoire of over 30 roles specialising in Wagner, Strauss and 20th Century Music. He appeared frequently with all the major opera and theatre companies in Australasia and was a regular guest soloist with the ABC Orchestras.
Whilst a resident artist at OA, he served as union delegate for the principal singers (1991-94) and became the inaugural Chairman of the Artists’ Joint Consultative Committee (1993).
In 1994, Patrick Togher accepted an invitation to sing Ubaldo Piangi in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. After nearly 1000 performances in Sydney and Brisbane, Patrick was engaged to play the same role in London’s West End; he later returned to Australia with his young family upon deciding to change direction - from performer to manager.
Patrick Togher Artists’ Management was founded in 1998 by Patrick Togher and Romola Tyrrell. Since then, many leading Australian and international performers have joined its stable of artists and are regularly engaged by major organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
In 2023, Patrick Togher served as National Adjudicator for the 2023 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition.
Email: patrick@patricktogher.com
natalie de biasi, senior artist manager
BMus (UWA)
Natalie De Biasi is an artist manager and producer currently based in Sydney, Australia.
After completing a degree in a Bachelor of Music Performance at the University of Western Australia’s Conservatorium of Music as a bassoonist, Natalie honed her skills in various roles in operations, concert and event management and producing in Perth for organisations and venues such as the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Western Australian Youth Orchestras and Perth Concert Hall.
Her time at the West Australian Symphony Orchestra saw her develop and produce a number of events, including the world premiere performances of Australian alternative-rock band Eskimo Joe’s orchestral collaboration, which has since toured Australia-wide to critical acclaim and released a live album.
She is currently a Senior Artist Manager at Patrick Togher Artists' Management.
Email: natalie@patricktogher.com
paull-anthony keightley, artist manager
BMus GradDipMus (WAAPA), MMus (MSM), MACuMa (Leuphana)
Paull-Anthony Keightley is a Sydney-based bass-baritone and artist manager. His European debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2018 led to engagements at Theatre Basel, Staatstheater Kassel, Luzern Theater, Theater Kiel and Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Before his career in Europe, Paull was a member of the Wesfarmers Young Artist Program at West Australian Opera, where he sang Colline in La bohème, Parson & Badger in The Cunning Little Vixen and Zuniga in Carmen. He received the 2018 Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship from Melba Opera Trust and holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Paull was a prize winner in many important singing competitions - the Opera Foundation for Young Australians, Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition.
He also collaborates with his husband, pianist Thomas Victor Johnson, as a vocal coach.
Email: paull@patricktogher.com
amelia berry, assistant artist manager
MMus (MSM), BMus H1 (NZSM), PS (MSM)
Amelia Berry is a New Zealand-born soprano and assistant artist manager currently based in Melbourne. Her career has spanned opera, music theatre, and operetta, with roles including Cunegonde in Candide, Musetta in La bohème, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, and Yum-Yum in The Mikado.
Amelia has sung throughout New Zealand and Australia with New Zealand Opera, Victorian Opera and State Opera South Australia, and has appeared in concert with all New Zealand’s major orchestras. She has also performed in the UK, Europe, the United States, and Asia, most memorably as Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera in Seoul.
Before moving to New York to earn her Master of Music degree and Professional Studies Certificate from the Manhattan School of Music, Amelia won the New Zealand Aria, Napier Aria, Wellington Aria, and Dunedin Aria competitions. She holds a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the New Zealand School of Music and was an AMP Scholarship winner, leading to an episode of the “Dare to Dream” documentary series.
Email: amelia@patricktogher.com
matthew togher, finance
BCom (Melb)
Matthew Togher has recently completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Melbourne; he has worked for Patrick Togher Artists’ Management since 2012.
His time as a vocal soloist and guitarist with the renowned St. Andrew’s Cathedral School, Sydney led to extensive travel throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Matthew’s work at PTAM has focused on financial planning and the generation of artistic relationships in Southeast Asia. He has co-produced events such as Great Australian Wagnerians (at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) and maintained responsibility for the agency’s Monthly Newsletter. Currently, he is a Juris Doctor (JD) student at the University of Melbourne.
However, his proudest achievement has involved obtaining his PADI: Open Water Diver Certificate (in Thailand) in 2015.
Email: matthew@patricktogher.com
romola tyrrell
1957-2023 In Memoriam
BMus (Syd) GradDipOpArt (Syd)
Romola Tyrrell enjoyed a career as one of Australia’s best-loved vocal artists.
On the concert platform, she sang the works of Mozart, Bach and Handel with Australia and New Zealand’s leading choral associations and symphony orchestras. For Sydney Philharmonia, she took the soprano solos in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Samson and Dixit Dominus, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Purcell’s The Masque in Dioclesian and many others. Regular appearances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra included Amor in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Britten’s Les Illuminations and ABC Family Concerts. Distinguished conductors with whom she worked included Sir David Willcocks, Jurgen Jurgens and Peter Seymour O.B.E.
Romola sang the role of Donna Maria in the ABC’s television operan Quiros by Peter Sculthorpe. She recorded regularly for the ABC and 2MBS-FM and was a founding member both of The Song Company and Voiceworks. The Australian Ballet engaged her to perform Songs of the Auvergne as an accompaniment to Of Blessed Memory.
Operatic appearances included Micaela in Carmen and Countess Stasi in The Gypsy Princess for State Opera of South Australia, Yum-Yum in The Mikado for West Australian Opera, Ilia in Idomeneo for Sydney University and the title role in The Gypsy Princess for Dunedin Opera Company, New Zealand.
In 1998, she co-founded Patrick Togher Artists’ Management.
On June 8th, 2023, Romola passed away at her Southern Highlands home after a long illness. She is survived by her husband Patrick and her children, Micaela and Matthew.