Aaron Wyatt is a

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...

man, viola player, composer and conductor from

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. Wyatt is recognised as the first Australian First Nations person to conduct one of the major orchestras in Australia, conducting the

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's performance of “Long Time Living Here” by

Deborah Cheetham Deborah Joy Cheetham (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright. Early life and education Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks o ...

. Wyatt was a long-term, casual musician with the

West Australian Symphony Orchestra The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Perth, Western Australia. Its principal concert venue is the Perth Concert Hall. WASO also gives concerts at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre. , WA ...

, musical director of the South Side Symphony Orchestra and conducted the Allegri Chamber Orchestra prior to relocating to

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. He is currently an assistant lecturer at The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at

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and completing a PhD with a research focus on animated graphic notation. Wyatt is the developer of the Decibel new music ensemble's animated score notation application, the Decibel ScorePlayer for

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, that was released in 2012.

Awards

Wyatt was nominated for the 2019

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in the category of "Best Music Direction" for his direction of "Speechless" by

Cat Hope Catherine Anne "Cat" Hope (born 11 March 1966), is an Australian composer, musician and academic. She started her music and academic careers in Perth and relocated to Melbourne in 2017. Her opera, ''Speechless'', was first performed in 2019 at ...

References

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