Artistic Team

Juliana Kay

Juliana is a Melbourne-based conductor, composer and teacher with a deep-rooted love for choirs and choral music. Equally at home working with children, community groups and professionals, Juliana rehearses with at least 250 singers every week. She is the director of Exaudi, assistant conductor of Young Voices of Melbourne and Head of Choral at St Catherine’s School. In 2018 she also founded innovative chamber choir Choral Edge, which sees her regularly experimenting with multimedia performances and theatre collaborations.

As a composer, Juliana strives to create music that is both engaging for singers and memorable for audiences. Her works are performed regularly by choirs across Australia and are available through the Australian publisher SingScore. Her achievements in composition include joint-winning the Ralph Morton Memorial Composition Competition in 2020 and being a Finalist for the 2023 Australian Art Music Awards: Choral Work of the Year for song-cycle Earth-Shaped Hearts, commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

As a singer, Juliana has sung and toured with some of Australia’s finest chamber choirs, including Ensemble Gombert, Polyphonic Voices, The Australian Voices, and Alta Collective.

Sian Halloran

Sian’s a theatre producer, technician, and enthusiast. Since being Intern to the Artistic Director at Monash Uni Student Theatre in 2016 and completing a Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services in 2017, she’s since produced several shows at Melbourne Fringe Festival including award-nominated Stories from the Choir (Choral Edge, 2018) and Private Parts (Choral Edge and Pink Flappy Bits, 2022).

In 2019 she worked for Underbelly at Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a venue stage manager for their iconic cow tent, and for the past several years she’s worked at Melbourne International Comedy Festival as a technical stage manager.

Other credits include stage managing and production managing Disparate Scenes for Millennial Dreams (Periscope Productions, 2019), production managing Stargazers (Periscope Productions, 2020), The Human Voice (Periscope Productions, 2021) and Reigen (Periscope Productions, 2022). She’s stage managed Driftwood (Umbrella Productions, 2022), Lucrezia Borgia Melbourne Opera Company, 2022) and The Enchanted Pig (Australian Contemporary Opera Company, 2021) as well as Alice in Wonderland (Australian Shakespeare Company, 2019) and Twelfth Night (Australian Shakespeare Company, 2020).

Sian has been singing in choirs for most of her life and now sings in Exaudi, as well as producing Choral Edge.