Brendan Joyce is Artistic Director and Leader of Camerata. He was born in Ayr, North Queensland and moved to Brisbane at the end of high school to study music at the University of Queensland. He furthered his musical studies in the USA and attained a Doctor of Musical Arts.

His leadership of Camerata was recently described by The Australian as dynamic and in Limelight as indefatigable.

In demand as a leader and concertmaster, Brendan leads for Orchestra of the Antipodes and Pinchgut Opera in Sydney. Over a 20 year period he has played with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, including as guest Concertmaster and most recently as soloist in their world premiere performances on period instruments of Max Richter’s hit work, Vivaldi Four Seasons Recomposed. During his youth orchestra days he led the Queensland Youth Symphony Orchestra and Australian Youth Orchestra. He has played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and America’s Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and during 2011 to 2013 performed the complete cycle of Bartok’s iconic String Quartets as a member of the Kurilpa String Quartet.