Greg Platt has been the Musical Director of SUMS since 2007.

Greg studied music in Sydney, where he gained a Bachelor of Music Education (with Merit), and a Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance-Choral Conducting) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has been Musical Director of SUMS since October 2006.

As a conductor, Greg has performed with all of the major community orchestras in Sydney and has worked as a chorus master for several choirs, including the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Greg has also been Deputy Conductor of the Willoughby Symphony Choir and Musical Director of the Joubert Singers and the Sutherland Shire Choral Society.

In 2001, Greg was one of 12 young conductors chosen from around Australia to participate in Symphony Australia’s Young Conductor Development Program, working with Finnish maestro Jorma Panula. He won the inaugural Sydney Symposium Choral Foundation Scholarship for young choral conductors under 35, for overseas study.

In 2001, Greg moved to London where he worked as a conductor for a number of choirs and taught singing and music theory in several schools, including King’s College School. Greg was also Conductor of the Morley College Choir in London, where his predecessors included Gustav Holst and Sir Michael Tippett.

In July 2004, Greg returned to Sydney where he took up a position as Acting Head of Music at Queenwood Junior School. He was Head of Chapel Music & Vocal Studies at St Andrew’s Cathedral School from 2005 to 2007, and was appointed Head of Music at St Pius X College, Chatswood, at the beginning of 2008.