Our guest mentor for Episode 3 is voice teacher, choral director, and composer – Dermot Tutty!

Dermot Tutty is Director of Choral Studies and a voice teacher at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. He teaches voice at Melbourne Grammar School and at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Students from Dermot’s private voice studio have won national and international competitions, including the Herald Sun Aria Competition, the IFAC Australian Singing Competition, and the Meistersinger Vocal Competition in Austria. Dermot tutored at the National Boys Choir of Australia for eighteen years. He was Choral Director for the Tutti World Youth Music Festival 2013 in Beijing, and returned to teach there in 2015.

Dermot has composed music for television, short films, and has beats released on a number of local hip hop labels. His songs have been performed and recorded by Siobhan Stagg, Merlyn Quaife, Brenton Spiteri, Max Riebl and Eidit Golder with the Melbourne Art Song Collective. Past commissions include chamber works for the Continuo Collective, a secular oratorio for VCASS, a setting of selections from “The Taming of the Shrew” for Southern Cross Soloists, a choral work for Plexus together with the VCASS Chamber Choir, and a short opera, The Legend of St Julian the Hospitalier, for Victorian Opera. He is currently recording an album of songs with vocalist Eva Sunny Reyne, at Plutonic Lab’s private studio.

Dermot teaches regularly at ABCs and Rice, a school set up to help break the cycle of poverty in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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