Meet the Team ...

Executive Director
JASON SIMMONDS

​Jason is the founder and Executive Director of Melbourne Contemporary Choir and makes every session enjoyable and engaging. His vision for the choir has seen its growth from 15 members to 100+ singers all across Melbourne.

Jason has performed at local concerts, and events in and across Melbourne as a backing singer, sessional singer, soloist and ensemble singer. Jason holds a teaching degree with The University of Melbourne and has taught classroom music at Marymede Catholic College. 

Jason has a keen interest in working with singers of differing abilities, helping them to develop a consistent singing technique, solid understanding of their instrument and good ensemble performance skills. Jason has also co-written the original songs that the choir records and performs.

MCGOSPEL Lead
​SEAN DONEHUE

Sean is an emerging Melbourne-based pop singer/songwriter influenced by Gospel, Soul and R&B. Recognised for his powerhouse vocals and captivating live performances, he is sung for notable acts and is quickly making a name for himself in the Melbourne music scene. With performances both nationally and internationally at iconic venes such as The Forum, The Enmore and AAMI Park, as well as staples festivals such as Golden Plains and Strawberry Fields, Sean has well and truly slidified his place in the professional Australian music circuit. A multi-instrumentalist and Bachelor of Music recipient, 

MCYOUTH Lead
ALINTA BURNELL

​Alinta Burnell is a graduate of Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. She has been on stage since the age of five, covering varied facets of performance, including musical theatre, acting, corporate entertainment and cabaret. Alinta also has experience as a session singer and solo recording artist and has toured extensively throughout Australia and Asia in Abbaration and cabaret acts. She has performed as a featured soloist at the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carols. Alinta performs regularly with the Baker Boys Band and Penny Lane.

MCCHOIR Lead - Kew
AMY HORNEMAN

Amy Horneman is an accomplished​ jazz,
A cappella singer and seasoned sessional singer.  Amy has loved singing since she can remember, and discovered a passion for small ensemble a cappella singing in her late teens. She has trained under some of the finest jazz vocalists in the UK and in Australia and performs as a solo artist around Australia. She also combines the worlds of jazz and a cappella in her quartet "On Church Street".