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Craig Allister Young is a composer, cellist and conductor who has been working with the QLD Philharmonic Orchestra since 1991 and the Queensland Orchestra since 2001.
Craig received a Bachelor of Music Distinction and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. While at the Conservatorium, he won numerous awards and in 1989 played with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, in the ABC Youth Concerto String Finals. Later that year he toured as Principal Cellist with the Queensland Youth Orchestra and performed as the soloist in Bloch’s “Schelomo” in San Francisco, Kobe and Shanghai.
As a composer and orchestrator, he has had works performed by the Queensland Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras, the Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony orchestras, the West Australian Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Symphony, Queensland Youth Choir, Jones and Co and the Voice Company. In 1993 his original composition “Curious Overture” was premiered by the Philharmonic, which was then followed by his tone poem “Forest”, at an Australian played concert in 1994.
In 1996 Craig and Librettist, David Kidd wrote, recorded and produced their first musical, “Singing Flat”. In 2000 he wrote the soundtrack for the opening ceremony of the Brisbane Olympic soccer season, which included his song “Calling all Nations”, performed by David Dixon and Christine Anu.
In 2004 Craig was appointed to conduct and produce for the QLD Pops orchestra and recorded music with Brisbane based group “Sirens of Song” and the internationally recognised ensemble “The Ten Tenors”. His orchestrations and conducting were heard on their CD “Tenology” which went platinum in 2006.
A new project sees Craig collaborating with several Brisbane writers in a new musical for schools based on the Lewis Carroll favourite “Alice in Wonderland” entitled “Curious”.
His latest venture is a cabaret ensemble called X–Collective in which he plays, sings, writes and arranges for. X–Collective has toured Queensland for the past 5 years and released its first CD entitled “It don’t mean a thing…” in 2004.
Craig has also been seen working incognito as Santa in the 2004 and 2005 Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carols.
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