Accompanist Workshop
Learn from Toowoomba’s most experienced accompanists to build your skills.
Lorraine Fuller
Lorraine Fuller has had extensive and varied experience as an accompanist, repetiteur, French Horn player, teacher and conductor. She holds a BA (Creative), a Licentiate Diploma (AMEB) in Piano, and a postgraduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching. She currently teaches at The Glennie School and Downlands College, and accompanies several choirs at both schools.
Lorraine has played with the Qld Symphony Orchestra and accompanied many of Australia’s leading musicians and singers in concerts and recitals. She has acted as Official Accompanist at both Qld and National Brass Band competitions and eisteddfodau. Lorraine worked as a repetiteur for Opera Qld for five years, and played French Horn with the Qld Pops Orchestra for three years.
Her conducting experience includes being Musical Director for the Empire Theatre’s productions of Cabaret, Singin’ in the Rain, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins. She was Musical Director of the Toowoomba Municipal Band for sixteen years. For USQ, she has conducted several productions, including Operas The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.
In 2000, Lorraine was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study conducting internationally and she travelled to the UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. In 1996, she was the recipient of the Toowoomba Community Australia Day Cultural Award.
