Chad Kelly
Keyboard | Conductor | Opera

2023

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Conductor for performances of Handel's Messiah, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, 9th & 10th December

Opera Australia

Music Staff for seasons in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Productions include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Der Ring des Nibelungen

Solomon’s Knot

Principal Keyboard for Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Snape Maltings, Thüringer Bachwochen, Trinity College Cambridge, Bachfest Leipzig, Wigmore Hall (April-June)

Canberra International Music Festival

Performances with the Australian Haydn Ensemble (April)

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra

Guest Directing performances with singer Sally-Anne Russell (August)

2022

Opera Australia

Music Staff for Melbourne and Sydney Winter Seasons. Productions included Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Boito’s Mefistofele, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Il Trovatore

Canberra International Music Festival

Solo fortepiano recital, keyboard continuo in Haydn’s Creation & and chamber performance of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (April)

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Guest Continuo for tour of “Italian Baroque” (August)

Victorian Opera

Conductor for new production of Valtinoni’s Il Mago di Oz (September)

Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque

Guest Director for recording of new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Record release in October 2023 (October)

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Guest Continuo for Mozart’s Requiem (November)

Australian Haydn Ensemble

Guest Director for tour of “C.P.E. Bach: Universe of Harmony” (December)

2021

Bayerische Staatsoper

Music Staff and Assistant Conductor. Productions included Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen, Verdi’s La Traviata, Otello, Rigoletto, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte

Academy of Ancient Music

Guest Director for performances with soloists David Blackadder and Soraya Mafi

Solomon’s Knot

Principal Keyboards for performances at Musikfest Stuttgart, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Wigmore Hall