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Who is Lucus?
Lucus Allerton is an active Canberran musician who graduated the ANU School of Music mid-2013 with First Class Honours in Piano.
He is yet to regret that, which makes him happy.
Known for his entertaining personality, Lucus is most often seen in the choral scene, having accompanied quite a few Canberra choirs on piano.
He also occasionally conducts them too.
When summoned, Lucus tells entertaining stories about music and plays piano – sometimes at the same time!
Below is a big ol’ list of some things Lucus has done (or is doing) in his career.
– Current Conductor of Centauri Voices, of the Woden Valley Youth Choir.
– Strange Weather Gospel Choir, Current Assistant Musical Director
– Margaret Smiles Accompaniment Prize – 2012 Winner of Best Accompanist
– Piano Accompanist of University of Canberra Chorale (Now Canberra Community Chorale) – 2016-
– Sydney Eisteddfod 80th Anniversary Victoria Jennifer Warren Piano Accompaniment Award – 2013 Finalist
– Fill-in Piano Accompanist for the U3A Harmonia Monday Choir, 2016
– Piano Accompanist for Vocal Conducting Masterclass with Dan Walker, 2017
– Pianist in Canberra Choral Society’s ‘A Feast of St Nicolas’ – 2014
– Featured Pianist for Art Song Canberra’s featured concert ‘Songs Sung by Jessye (Norman), 2017
– Piano Accompanist for Australian Rugby Choir’s Annual Concert, 2017
– Piano Accompanist for ACT Kodály Stephen Leek Choral Workshop, 2016
– ArtSound FM – Featured my story and piano performance of Danse Macabre, 2017
– Ongoing Accompanist at the ANU School of Music
– Bass with Luminescence Chamber Singers Octet. LCS Performances include:
- Descent in to Madness NSW tour, guest director Gordon Hamilton – 2016
- Lagrime d’Amante NSW tour, guest director Dan Walker – 2017
- Canberra International Music Festival performance, sharing the stage with The Song Company – 2016
Musical Education
Bachelor of Music (Honours, 1st Class) for Piano Performance, ANU School of Music: Commenced 2012, awarded July 2013.
Bachelor of Music for Piano Performance, ANU School of Music: Commenced 2009, completed 2011.
AMusA AMEB Diploma (Piano): Completed 2007.
ANU Courses in Linguistics and Phonetics to greater understand language and sound production, 2016.
ANU Course in Poetry to greater understand text in English Art Song, 2017.
Masterclasses with Art Song expert Graham Johnson at Perth’s WAAPA International Art Song Academy, 10 July – 16 July, 2017.
Secondary Classroom Music Level 1 of the Australian Kodály Certificate (Music Education), The Cuskelly College of Music’s Summer School Music Program, Brisbane, 2017.
Secondary Classroom Music Level 2 of the Australian Kodály Certificate (Music Education), The Cuskelly College of Music’s Summer School Music Program, Brisbane, 2018.
Secondary Classroom Music Level 3 of the Australian Kodály Certificate (Music Education), The Cuskelly College of Music’s Summer School Music Program, Brisbane, 2019.
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