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Troy Cassar-Daley isn’t just a musician – he’s a storyteller, a custodian of culture, and a voice that echoes across the Australian landscape. A proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man, over three decades he has crafted a career that is as rich and enduring as the land he sings about. 

His powerful songwriting and soulful voice takes centre stage at the Sydney Opera House in this special performance with the Sydney Symphony, with his iconic catalogue newly reimagined for orchestra by the brilliant young composer Alex Turley.  

Program

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Artists

Troy Cassar-Daley

Voice, Guitar

Troy Cassar-Daley isn’t just a musician—he’s a storyteller, a custodian of culture, and a voice that echoes across the Australian landscape. A proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man, he was born into a legacy of fireside storytellers, and over three decades, he’s crafted a career that is as rich and enduring as the land he sings about.

With 12 studio albums, 34 Number 1 chart singles, and multiple gold and platinum records, Troy’s music is the soundtrack to life in Australia—capturing the spirit of small towns, the resilience of everyday people, and the beauty of this country.

His powerful songwriting and soulful voice have earned him an astonishing 45 Golden Guitars, 6 ARIA Awards, 4 CMAA Entertainer of the Year titles, 3 APRA Song of the Year awards, and the 2025 Queensland Music Awards Album of the Year and a place among legends as the 50th inductee into the Australasian Roll of Renown.

More than just accolades, Troy’s music carries the weight of history and the pulse of the present. He’s collaborated with a diverse array of artists, leaving an indelible mark on the industry. His songs resonate because they are real—stories of love, loss, and the land we call home.

Through it all, Troy remains as passionate as ever, travelling this vast country, guitar in hand, ready to share the next chapter. Because for him, the music never stops, and the stories are far from over.

Troy Cassar-Daley

Aaron Wyatt

Conductor

Aaron is an accomplished violist, conductor, composer, programmer and academic. He has played in a wide variety of ensembles across many different genres, and is a long term member of the award winning Decibel New Music ensemble. As well as performing with the ensemble, he is the developer behind the Decibel ScorePlayer app, the group’s cutting edge, animated graphic notation software for the iPad. An emerging conductor, he was nominated for a Helpmann Award for his role as musical director of the premiere season of Cat Hope’s opera, Speechless, and is the director of Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first First Nations chamber ensemble. An advocate for Indigenous classical music and musicians, he premiered Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s work, Nanyubak, for viola and orchestra as a soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and during a conducting engagement with them he became the first Indigenous Australian to conduct one of the state symphony orchestras in concert. He has since gone on to work with the ASO and SSO, and conducted the premiere of the first opera in Noongar, Gina Williams’ and Guy Ghouse’s Koolbardi Wer Wardong with the WA Opera.

As a composer he has been a participant in the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples composer 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, Ensemble Dutala, and for Kyla Matsuura-miller’s Freedman Fellowship project, Three Conversations.

Aaron Wyatt