Lachlan Massey
Conductor, Composer and Music Educator (NSW)
Lachlan Massey is an Australian conductor and composer.
Lachlan is Artistic Associate at Gondwana Choirs, working under Lyn Williams AM. In his time with the choirs he has prepared them for performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Theatre Company and for six Prime Ministers of Australia. Recent highlights include preparing the children’s choruses in Julia, directed by Sarah Goodes for Sydney Theatre Company, and The Chronicles for Sydney Festival and Stephanie Lake Company.
As a composer and director of opera, and especially those for young audiences, Lachlan’s productions with Musgrove Opera have been called “ingenious…petite productions for hungry young minds” (Time Out). The company has performed children’s operas such to packed houses at The Concourse and the Sydney Opera House, as well as regional venues. Its schools concerts have been well received by teachers and students alike, bringing energetic productions to classrooms and school halls of all shapes and sizes. His stage works as a composer include Pinocchio! (2018), Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (The Concourse, 2024), Hansel and Gretel (The Concourse, 2021), and as music director; Aija Draguns’ Max and Moritz (Sydney Opera House, 2022), and Malcolm Fox’s Sid the Serpent who Wanted to Sing (Sydney Opera House, 2022/23). In 2026 his children’s opera Lennie Gwyther’s Great Adventure will premiere at the Sydney Opera House prior to a regional tour.
Lachlan is a primary music teacher at SCEGGS Darlinghurst and Director of Choirs at Shore School. He has presented workshops for ACO Foundations and has been a guest conductor for the RSCM Junior Schools Choral Festival and NSW State Music Camps, and the Festival of Choral Music (The Arts Unit). Lachlan is a former Young Ambassador for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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