Rodney Clancy
Kenneth Teoh is an experienced artistic director, musical director and workshop leader with a passion for inspiring the community to create music. He moved to Canberra, Australia from Penang, Malaysia in 1994 and has called the nation’s capital home ever since.
Ken studied classical piano for 14 years starting at the tender age of 3 and started singing soon after. He also plays numerous other instruments and recently started studying the cello with David Pereira, one of Australia’s most accomplished cellists.
Ken’s interest in conducting was sparked at the age of 11, when he led his school band to victory at the Pesta Muzik competition in Malaysia, in which he received high commendations from the adjudicators. He has since conducted many choirs, bands and orchestras of various types and sizes.
These days, Ken devotes most of his time to community music, sharing his passion for music with people from all walks of life, mainly through his work with school and community choirs. His ‘office’ ranges from concert halls to street corners, school gyms to convention centres, and foreign embassies to prisons.
He has held the positions of Artistic Director and Musical Director of numerous Canberra choirs including the Canberra Men's Choir, the Canberra Gay & Lesbian Qwire, the Canberra Boys Choir, the Strange Weather Gospel Choir, the Burton & Garran Singers and the Canberra Youth Choir. Through running workshops and freelance conducting, Ken has worked with many other school and community choirs within Canberra, around Australia and internationally.
Ken was also the musical director of numerous large scale projects including more notably, the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay celebrations involving approximately 550 musicians and the “Australian Carols Spectacular” involving over 300 musicians, where he successfully brought together and combined the talents of professional and community musicians. In 2014, he was invited to be the Associate Musical Director of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Ken is also a prolific arranger of choral music. His arrangements have been performed by many choirs in Australia and overseas.
He has sat on numerous music advisory panels including the Canberra Youth Music Artistic Review Panel and the ACT government’s arts funding assessment panel.
Ken’s love of people, boundless energy and unique approach to music-making, have ensured that he is kept busy with teaching and conducting engagements in Canberra, around Australia and overseas.
Rodney Clancy
We are extremely lucky to have Rodney Clancy join our music team while Ken takes a well-deserved break.
Background:
Rodney is a Choral, Orchestral and Concert Band Conductor. He has been involved in music in Canberra for more than 10 years.
Rodney’s field of specialty is Choirs and has performed in, managed and directed many of Canberra’s Choirs over these years. From the smallest Children’s Choir to relief conducting Canberra’s biggest and best choirs. Rodney has had positions as Musical Director and / or Conductor of the following Canberra Choirs; ACT Singers Inc., ACT Rep Singers Inc., Canberra Youth Choir, Canberra Youth Chamber Choir (Founding Conductor), Andante Choir,
Yass High School Choir, Miles Franklin Primary School Choirs, Twin City Community Carols Jerrabomberra. Rodney has been involved as a rehearsal conductor with the following groups: Canberra Youth Music’s Wind Symphony, Concert Band, Big Band, Junior Choir and Children’s Choir, as well as rehearsals with; Australian Rugby Choir, The Llewellyn Choir, Canberra Choral Society, SCUNA (Australian National University Choral Society), Canberra Men’s Choir, Canberra Handel Choir. Rodney has also
conducted, Hall Village Brass Band, Yass High Concert Band & Big Band and University of the 3rd Age Orchestra of Canberra.
Rodney is the Chorus Master of the Australian International Music Festival held in Sydney with the main Command Performance held at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. He has held this position for the previous 6 years and for two of these years has been an adjudicator of the international visiting choirs. He has toured as assistant conductor with the Canberra Concerto Orchestra in 2008 and principal conductor in 2009. He is the founder and Musical Director of the Canberra Concerto Orchestra Concert Band and associate conductor of the Orchestra. Rodney has also toured to Hawaii as Director of the Canberra Youth Choir where an international Silver Medal was achieved.
Rodney is also available for private music tuition in Singing & Brass (Trumpet, Trombone etc) at Cooma School of Music.
You can contact Rodney on 0408488749
