Our Musical Team

Musical Director. Trish Shaw has been with Maroondah Singers since April 2006 and has brought with her a professional and exciting approach to the choir's development. She builds on the choir's experience, enthusiasm and dedication to produce the best possible musical results while also maintaining the choir's friendly and inclusive nature.

Trish has extensive experience in choral singing and conducting, ranging from all kinds of classical music to contemporary popular styles. She has sung with the chapel choirs of Geelong Grammar School and Ormond College, with the BBC Symphony Chorus, London, and in various smaller choirs and vocal ensembles. She currently sings in the St John's Southgate Bach Choir and in the a cappella ensemble The Ring Singers, which she also directs. Trish has directed a number of other groups including Melbourne Vocal Ensemble and the ANU Choral Society. She is a Lecturer in music at Australian Catholic University, where her teaching includes choral conducting, and at The University of Melbourne.

Accompanist. Janet Gibbs was born and educated in New Zealand and emigrated to Melbourne in 1998. In New Zealand she led an active life as an organ recitalist and accompanist for numerous choirs in and around Wellington as well as being contract organist to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for ten years.

In Melbourne Janet has now gained recognition as an organist and piano accompanist and she is finding herself in constant demand in these areas. She is an Associate Organist of the Carmelite Parish and at St Johns Church, Toorak, Organist at Wesley Uniting Church in Box Hill and a regular organist at many other churches and colleges. In addition to Maroondah Singers, Janet is official accompanist to the Victoria Chorale and has worked with many of Melbourne's leading choral groups.

As a freelance musician Janet thrives on the diversity and challenge of her life and she is constantly seeking to extend her creative skills in new directions.