January 22-24 clinician Conducting Intensive for teachers and community band directors focussing on conductor selected repertoire and movement in conducting technique

February clinician VCE Music Conference run by the Association of Music Educators (Victoria), Trinity Grammar Kew in Writing about music: is music beyond words?, and Dialogue with a mentor

March 5 conductor Made In Australia concert with The Grainger Wind Symphony conducting one world premiere Immortality by Natasha Pearson

May 28 conductor Genesis: 30th anniversary concert with The Grainger Wind Symphony, the major work is The Genesis Suite by Tolga Kashif arr. Eric Somers with Southern Voices choir directed by Sharon Batteringham, violin soloist Daniel Tan and piano soloist Stuart Newstead

June 1 guest assessor Unit 3 VCE Music Performance unit recitals solo Marcellin College

June July The Grainger Wind Symphony Conducting Workshops 2016, clinician and convenor

July August ABODA conductor tutor at Victorian School Music Festival

August guest clinician Genazzano FCJ College VCE Music Performance Unit 4

August guest assessor Unit 4 mock exams St Michael’s Grammar School

August Adjudicator Victorian School Music Festival Advanced Concert Bands

September guest conductor workshop and performance Strathmore High School Symphony Orchestra – Molly on the Shore by Percy Grainger, Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Greig ed. Carl Simpson

September guest VCE Music Performance masterclass Glen Waverley Secondary College

September conference attendee Australian National Band and Orchestra Conference Sydney 23-26 September at Sydney Conservatorium of Music

October VCE Music Solo Pianoforte Masterclass Eltham College

15-16 October Sapphire Coast Concert Band Weekend Workshop, Pambula, NSW.