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 secondary level.

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.

MCCHOIR Lead 
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".