Daryl Wallis

Daryl Wallis is a composer, sound designer, keyboard musician, vocal coach and musical director. He won first prize in the 2012 Federation Bells Composing Competition, the 2013 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score & Sound Design in a Mainstage Production with Elana Kats-Chernin for the Ensemble Theatre production of FRANKENSTEIN, and the Green Room award as musical director for THE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. Current projects include the cabarets DISENCHANTED & CARMEN THE CABARET with Eliane Morel; THE PETER ALLEN SONGBOOK with Annaliesa Rose, and LEONARD COHEN KOANS with Ali Hughes. Daryl continues to develop the immersive spiritual song cycle THE AUROBINDO PROJECT and THE HOUR OF LAND, a personal meditation and musical dialogue between Yosemite National Park and the Royal National Park in Sydney. “Daryl Wallis quite simply the best-piano-playing-while-diva-sings bloke I’ve ever seen.”  Stephen Dunne, Sydney Morning Herald