Melanie Penicka-Smith
Photo credit: Grant Leslie.
Producer
Stage & Event Manager Melanie Penicka-Smith is a Producer, Production and Stage Manager, International Tour Manager and Event Manager. With a passion for working with community... [read more] |
Sarah Penicka-Smith
Photo credit: Grant Leslie
Conductor
Socially Engaged Artist "Penicka-Smith expertly held it all together ... a big tick for the community, a harmonious, resonant, inspired collaboration..." [read more] |
About us
With 30 years' combined experience in the arts & event industries (and counting), Penicka-Smith Arts & Event Management is how we combine Mel's dynamism, eye for detail & quick thinking with Sarah's vision, creativity, & communication.
It's also how we make the art we think the world's missing.
Commissioning & producing new opera, creating & touring a pride choir, bringing high quality classical music into hospitals, working with communities to tell their own stories through art - we've done all this, and more. Together we've worked with community choirs, orchestras, & choral festivals, produced chamber & children's operas, led international choir tours, & provided consultancy services to amateur & professional organisations.
This website brings together both our partnership & our individual professional pursuits. Click the links to read more.
It's also how we make the art we think the world's missing.
Commissioning & producing new opera, creating & touring a pride choir, bringing high quality classical music into hospitals, working with communities to tell their own stories through art - we've done all this, and more. Together we've worked with community choirs, orchestras, & choral festivals, produced chamber & children's operas, led international choir tours, & provided consultancy services to amateur & professional organisations.
This website brings together both our partnership & our individual professional pursuits. Click the links to read more.
News
Next gig:
'All Aboard With Beethoven'.
River City Voices with Elias Wilson
& Western Sydney Youth Orchestra.
11.30am, 1.30pm & 4.00pm
Phive Discovery Space, Parramatta
Both Penicka-Smiths are on deck for this hilarious show,
Mel stage-managing and Sarah co-conducting.
'Churchill Trust celebrates another year of bold change-makers'...
and Sarah Penicka-Smith is one of them!
and Sarah Penicka-Smith is one of them!
Sarah is thrilled to have been awarded a 2024 Churchill Fellowship to investigate socially-engaged orchestral and operatic models in the USA, Spain, Poland and Germany, in order to run projects in Australia.
Sarah has been announced as the Festival Conductor for the 71st Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival, in Sydney, January 2025. Mel and Sarah both have a long history with the Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival - Mel especially - and Sarah has worked with the Sydney committee to curate a program of meaningful and beautiful works in honour of this really special opportunity. Read more (or sign up to sing!) here.
Willoughby Symphony has announced its 2025 season. As Associate Conductor, Sarah conducts two concerts: Beethoven Triple (featuring the Estivo Trio) and Lark Ascending (featuring Jane Rutter, and the Willoughby Symphony Choir).