PETER KENNARD

Musical Director

Peter is one of Australia's most prolific and enduring theatre composers – a performer, a studio based music producer and musical director with a career spanning near 30 years.  His theatre credits include work for an “A list” of Sydney based performing arts companies and directors....including a 26 year association with Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image (most recently Brett and Wendy for Sydney Festival 2019) - David Clarkson's Stalker Theatre (most recently the national touring production Creature/Dot and the Kangaroo)  multiple productions for Q Theatre (dir Katrina Douglas), John Bell (dir Theatre of Image's Monkey – Journey to the West), Jim Sharman (The Three Furies by Stephen Sewell – 2010), Legs on the Wall Co, Ruckus Ensemble to name but a few.

Peter has also been awarded grants for community based arts projects on numbers of occasions –  from Arts NSW for the Forster Tuncurry Oyster Festival, Arts NSW CASP grant as musical director for Forbes' Kalari-Lachlan River Arts Festival and a Blue Mts City of the Arts Trust grant to present D'Yari - an evening of cross-cultural dance and music in collaboration with local Blue Mts performers and Kurdish musician Muharrem Aslan.

He is a multi instrumentalist – keyboards, guitar, drumkit and all things percussive. He is highly regarded as a percussionist in the Sydney “world music” scene – currently performing with Bukhu Ganburged., John Robinson and Bertie McMahon  in the extraordinary contemporary Mongolian fusion band Equus (www.equusmusic.com.au)

He holds a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (music) degree from Macquarie University, Sydney, for which he was also honoured with the Vice Chancellor's award for academic excellence