Jonathon Welch

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jonathon Welch
Occupation	Conductor
Date Of Birth	Oct 5, 1958(1958-10-05)
Age	66
Birthplace	Ripponlea
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Libra

Jonathon Welch Biography

Jonathon Welch is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on October 5, 1958 in Ripponlea, Victoria, Australia. Welch was raised within Ripponlea, which is in Melbourne neighborhood of Ripponlea. The father of his son, Kenneth Welch, was engineer from Sydney in the year 1898 to English parents Thomas Archibald and Ella Thrale Welch. Her mother, Olive Margaret Hando, was the daughter of Charles and Florence Amelia Hando, farmers from Charlton in rural Victoria. Kenneth and Olive were married in 1948, and moved to Melbourne in the year 1948, where Olive was employed as a legal secretary. His older sister, Welch’s is Andrea (born in. 1951) and his elder sister is Glenn (born around. 1953). They also have adopted a younger sister, Elizabeth. Welch was a student at Ripponlea primary school. His first job at eight He sold newspapers direct to motorists. Olive and Andrea performed and played the piano at the house as Kenneth was a fan of the opera as well as Gilbert and Sullivan.

In the year 1999, Welch went to Canada to enjoy a vacation. While there, he stumbled across an article in the Montreal Times about the Homeless Men’s Choir. In 2001, Welch founded The Sydney Street Choir – to form a homeless choir people to be used in a TV show. He also has formed or been the leader of other choirs such as Geelong Pop Choir and Pop Kidz, Australian Pop Choir and Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus. In 2003, Welch revealed his motives:

In September 2006 Welch created The Choir of Hard Knocks, which is made up of homeless and disadvantaged singers from Melbourne, “Welch was compelled to form the choir after reading an article about a choir for homeless people in Montreal”. It was funded by RecLink, a non-profit charity and welfare organisation. The process of forming the ensemble was televised on Australian Broadcasting Corporation during mid-2007 as a five-part documentary series of the same name. Also that year, Welch issued a solo album, With a Song in My Heart on ABC Records.

From June to August 2008 Welch was a judge on TV talent competition, Battle of the Choirs. In March 2009 he had a falling out with RecLink and The Choir of Hard Knocks was replaced by Choir of Hope and Inspiration in April. He also started a new community project, THECHO!R, that year. Welch developed another choir, Voices from the Inside, for the November 2009 TV series, Jail Birds, with female inmates of HM Prison Tarrengower.

In 1999 Welch won the Australasian Choral Championships at the City of Sydney Eisteddfod. South Sydney Council, in 2002, awarded him with an award for community services. In 2007 he won the John Campbell “Mo” Fellowship Award. Welch was named the 2008 winner from The Australian Local Hero Award – an award that is part of the Australian of the Year awards. The award was presented in the recognition of his work in the group The Choir of Hard Knocks. In a statement, the National Australia Day Council stated that he “touched the heart of the nation when he demonstrated the power of singing in building and renewing promising lives that had been saddened and defeated by circumstance”. In 2008, Welch was awarded an honorary doctorate by Griffith University.

Jonathon Welch Net Worth

Jonathon Welch is one of the richest Conductor from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonathon Welch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jonathon Charles Welch (born on 5th October, 1958) is an Australian conductor of the choral, an voice teacher and opera singer. As a performer, Welch has been a Tenor at Opera Australia, the Victoria State Opera, Lyric Opera of Queensland, and Opera Australia. In 2006 Welch created The Choir of Hard Knocks comprised of homeless and deserving performers from Melbourne. The group’s creation was the basis for the five-part documentary series with the same name, which aired in the middle of 2007 in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. On June 9, 2009, the Queen’s birthday Welch was made a Member of the Order of Australia with the award, “For service to the arts as an operatic performer and vocal coach, and to the community as the founder and musical director of the Choir of Hard Knocks”. The 1st of April in 2009 the author released an autobiography, Choir Man.

In 1980 Welch quit his teaching job and joined the Victoria State Opera chorus as Tenor. He made his professional debut in the year 1981. Olive was diagnosed with lung cancer at aged 23. He sang in the Victorian State Opera’s debut show, The Pirates of Penzance (1983). The following year, he spent four years (1984 until 1988) in Brisbane in which he was the principal tenor at The Lyric Opera Queensland. He was continuing to study at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. In 1988, Welch was accepted into Opera Australia as a tenor and sang with Joan Sutherland at the Sydney Opera House. In 1994, he was the founder of Tenor Australis with fellow tenor, Gerry Sword. In 1997, he was a member of his choir, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir and, by the end of the year, was their musical director.

Welch is an openly gay performer, and has led both the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir and the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus. In late December 2000 Welch met his future domestic partner, Matt (an electrical engineer from Orion, Illinois), on the Pacific cruise ship Regal Princess, where Welch was on a working holiday with Tenor Australis providing on-board entertainment. As of September 2007 the pair were living in Yarraville, and had been together for six-and-a-half years.

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At the age of seven or eight, Welch crafted his first public performance – on the stairs to his school’s library – a self-adapted version of Winnie the Pooh and charged his fellow school mates sixpence each. In October 1966 he started piano lessons with Valda Johnstone. As a boy soprano, Welch sang at the local Presbyterian Church, St Margaret’s. His parents separated in 1969 and subsequently divorced – the four children remained with Olive. He completed his secondary education at Melbourne High School and commenced a teaching course at Melbourne State College (which later became a faculty of the University of Melbourne).

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