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Mark Shiell Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra, Mark Shiell has established a reputation as one of the leading Australian conductors of his generation. During the last 3 years his guest conducting appearances have included the West Australian Symphony, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Canberra Symphony, Sydney Sinfonia and Melbourne University Symphony Orchestra. Shiell is currently the Principal Conductor of the Canberra Concerto Orchestra, Choir of the Southern Cross and the Macquarie Philharmonia. His passion for working with and encouraging young musicians is well known and he is regularly invited to work with youth orchestras across Australia and in Asia. Mark Shiell is a devoted interpreter of new music. He is a regular guest conductor with the renowned Sydney- based ensemble, Halcyon. He has also conducted numerous Australian and World Premieres with other ensembles including the Melbourne New Orchestra, of which Shiell was both co-founder and Principal Conductor and in the field of opera with works such as Matthew Hindson’s Love, Death, Music and Plants and Emma O’Briens Avatara. Originally a flautist, Mark Shiell studied at the Victorian College of the Arts where he won the Gwen Nisbett Award for Outstanding Musical Achievement. His conducting study began with Graham Abbott through Monash University and with John Hopkins in the renowned Masters Program at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne. Further study has taken him to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perugia where he has been pursuing the teachings of the great Russian conducting pedagogue, Ilya Musin.
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