Faculty

Adrian is excited to join Scott Williams and the team at Impulse Company International on bringing this Music Theatre workshop to Australia. Adrian has enjoyed a long and varied career as an opera singer, concert performer, music educator, director and producer. Most recently, he was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award (Hadestown) and an Opera Chaser Critic’s Award (Kat’a Kabanova). In 2024, he won his second Green Room Award for his performance as Hagen in Wagner’s, Götterdämmerung.

In 2017, Adrian was the winner of Australia’s prestigious singing award, the Australian Opera Awards
(YMF, MOST).

Adrian opened Pure Harmony Music Studio in 2000 teaching singing and piano, coaching for auditions and role preparation for musicals and opera. He is proud to say that his students have gone on to feature in musicals such as Wicked, Les Miserable, Moulin Rouge, Ride the Cyclone, Footloose, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phantom of the Opera, the Neil Diamond Musical and many, many more. His singing has featured on cinema releases of opera, DVD, international recordings, motionpicture soundtracks, radio, and television. He is proud to have worked with companies such as Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Victorian Opera, West Australian Opera, Melbourne Opera, Lost and Found Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Zelman Symphony Orchestra, Sydney University Graduate Choir, Melbourne Bach Choir, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Inventi Ensemble.

Over the years, Adrian has championed new Australian works and world premieres including Jane Hammond’s The Spare Room, Nicholas Buc’s Origins, Chistopher Bowen’s Redfern Oratorio and Luke Styles’ No Friend but the Mountains, which is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Behrouz Boochani. Since making his professional music theatre debut in 2024 as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Adrian will play the role of Hades in the Australian premiere production of Hadestown in 2025. Adrian has worked with renowned conductors and directors such as Asher Fisch, Andrea Molino, Andrea Battistoni, Jonathan Darlington, Pietari Inkinen, Carlo Montanaro, Renato Palumbo, Guillaume Tourniaire, David McVicar, and Francesca Zambello, as well as Australians Jessica Cottis, Erin Helyard, Barry Kosky, Bruce Beresford, and John Bell. Adrian is proudly represented by Ian White Management.