Richard Sievers

Head of Music​

Richard is a classically trained musician, educator and filmmaker. Richard's long experience as a performing musician began at the age of ten, when he was chosen to be a chorister in the Australian Boys Choir. He fulfilled the dreams of his younger self, to become a sought-after professional musician, touring Australia and performing in both major centres & remote communities.Richard‘s professional music life included performing with companies such as Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Orchestra Victoria and the Bolshoi Ballet. However, it was during his performances with the Victorian College of the Arts Orchestra under the baton of Sir John Hopkins, that Richard first discovered the joy and satisfaction of working as an artist in small rural communities. The hunger and enthusiasm of such communities, for musical knowledge and the inspiration of the Arts would come to form the fabric of Richard’s long-lasting passion to facilitate the access of such communities to artistic opportunity. In his role as Head of Music, Richard is driven to deliver programs and educational content to all sectors of our vast community.