Tutty Choir

Tutty Choir

The 2025 Winter School Choirs are suitable to all students aged 10-18 regardless of their prior musical experience.

Whether you have sung in a choir before or have only begun discovering your voice – the Winter School choirs will provide the opportunity for young musicians to focus on a range of choral music in a variety of styles.

The Tutty Choir is for school students aged 13-18 (as of the 1st July 2025) and will expand on the critical ensemble, communication and aural skills in SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)(4-part) harmony. Both choirs are open to anyone regardless of their previous vocal or choral experience.

Thanks to the support of Melbourne’s best choral conductors and music educators, participants will sing alongside other young musicians develop rhythmic, vocal and aural skills together and be motivated by the shared goal of a stellar final Winter School performance at Melbourne Recital Centre.

APPLICANTS
INSTRUMENTS – Vocal only.

The Senior Choir is suitable for students aged 13-18 with any level of choral experience.

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 …
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 and short films. 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.