Annie Kwok

Annie is truly excited by children’s and youth choirs, always inspired by their spirit, possibility, and sound. Her works have been performed in major choral festivals in Australia and internationally, as well as being actively sought out for primary and secondary school music programs.

She has worked on the artistic staff of the South Australian Public Primary Schools Festival of Music, Young Adelaide Voices, Gondwana Voices, and Sydney Children’s Choir. Annie was the 2011-12 Composer-in-Residence for Young Adelaide Voices, and the 2014-15 Composer-in-Residence for the Sydney Children’s Choir. Recent collaborations include commissioned words for the inaugural Flame Tree Performing Arts Festival, Pemulwuy Male Voice Festival, Toowoomba Festival of Voices, SCEGGS Compose 120 Project, Scotch College 100th Year Celebrations, New South Wales Performing Arts Unit Concert Series, South Australian Public Primary Schools Festival of Music Concert Series, and the opening of the MOD Research Centre for the University of South Australia.

By day, Annie is a secondary school classroom music teacher, and has taught at Brighton Secondary School, one of four public Special Interest Music Schools in Adelaide, and the Conservatorium High School in Sydney. She is currently the Assistant Head of Performing Arts at Pulteney Grammar School in Adelaide where she teaches Year 7 to 12 Music and champions all things choral as the director of the Grammarphones Middle School and Senior Concert Choirs, the newly-formed “MANCHOIR” for developing male voices from Year 7 to 12, and rallies the whole school from Reception to Year 12 in the massive “Whole School Singing” Project, started in 2023.

In 2020, she was awarded the South Australian World Teachers Day Award for Excellence by the Australian National Choral Association.

Annie is excited to be coming to Tasmania to work with singers at the 2025 Festival of Voices.