The drama takes centre stage in J. S. Bach’s powerful and richly layered St John Passion, composed for Good Friday in 1724. Read more.

As well as the Canberra Symphony, John has performed with leading Australian and international ensembles, including Pinchgut Opera, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Bach Akademie, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Academia Montis Regalis. John recently launched Early Music ensemble Apeiron Baroque with his wife, Marie Searles. Outside of music, John is an avid gamer, amateur horticulturalist, comic book enthusiast and self-identified tech-nerd.

Aaron Wyatt has been a participant in the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program, writing for Ensemble Offspring. He has also written a number of electro-acoustic works, using a mix of traditional and animated graphic notation, for Decibel, GreyWing Ensemble and Ensemble Dutala.