Early years: Jean-Paul was born in Melbourne, Australia and began his performing career in the 1960’s with Australia’s longest running theatre company, the New Theatre.

In 1970 Jean-Paul was fortunate to become a mime student of a newly arrived Dutchman, Wim Burkunk. Wim was a student of the creator of Corpreal Mime Etienne Decroux. His disciplined illusionist technique stunned the performing world with his famous student Marcel Marceau. Six months with Wim eventually took Jean-Paul to Canada to join a mime company in Toronto and in 1974 to England to work with London Mime Theatre alongside Nola Rae, a wonderful Australian performer living and performing in Europe.

Australian Work: Returning to Australia in 1976, Jean-Paul had a diverse career which saw him perform in Cabaret, Theatre restaurants and Stand Up Comedy as well as a host of character roles for television and film.
For more than three decades, Jean-Paul has been committed to theatre in education. Performing and teaching, he has also contributed to films and drama text books for schools.

Establishment of Clown Doctors: In 1997 Jean-Paul established the Humour foundation, a charity that is devoted to delivering humour and laughter to the health care sector.  It’s core program has now grown and encompasses more than 55 professional performers working as Clown Doctors in hospitals around Australia. (www.clowndoctors.com.au)

Humanitarian Work: Jean-Paul’s work has also taken him to war torn East Timor  and Afghanistan, where he has established a charity for ongoing support to Afghan Children (www.operationkch.com).

For ABC Radio transcripts of his work: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2006/1696059.htm

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Early Years: Nicolas was born in Flixton, Lancashire, UK, in 1948. He began playing music at the age of five. He received a scholarship to study violin with Robert Morley at the Royal collage of Music in Manchester and moved to Australia in 1961 receiving a scholarship to study violin and viola with Georgina McLean, and double bass with Walter Sutcliffe at the Sydney Conservatorium. He has been a professional musician since the age of eighteen. He worked with Peter Sculthorpe for ABC Radio playing Koto and with artists such as David Ahearn, Tristrum Carrey, Marian Henderson, Judy Bailey, Margaret Roadnight, Robyn Archer, Jeanne Lewis, Robin Hable and Nigel Butterley. Nicolas has worked throughout Australia in many fields of music along side many visual artists, sculptures, poets and writers, such as The Ashes of Sydney, The Sunningdale Baroque Ensemble, The Cavers, and Now Gypsy Fire.

He has worked in many fields of music, creating electronic realisations, early Renaissance music, Jazz, Classical, Folk, Rock and Ethnic music, written for Theatre, Ballet, film, TV and radio, as well as other recordings. Nicolas was the Music Master at the Yellow House in Sydney, with Martin Sharp and Brett Whitely among others..

Original Compositions: Forty-nine Villages for full orchestra and four part choral work. Transformation for full orchestra. Rags to Riches for full orchestra. River for full orchestra. Berry string Quartet, Cultural Conversations record. Zones record. Unicorn Record. AS One record. Resistance choral four part work. Images Tape.

Film Scores: Woman’s Vision series BannerFilm for Adelaide Festival. Documentary work for SA Film Corp Animation with Bruce Tolly. Tea and Sugar Train Film Aust. Tree Ian Stocks. Play Hooky in the SnowChildren’s series for Tasmanian Film Co. In Search of AnnaEsben Storm Film. Stranded Dolphin Touch for Golden Dolphin Productions, Bob Loader. Bird Man of Killimanjaro Dick Dennison. Tracks of the Rainbow: George Gittos. A Piece of Cake Mitch Matthews. Pins and Needles Jenny Baterham. Letter to a Friend Sonja Hoffman. They must be HeroesJack Thompson. All That Glitter Film Aust. And or = ONE Jindalee Lady, Brianne Kearney. Resistance Macau Light Co. Third Person SBS. Worked on The Year of Living Dangerouslywith Maurice Jarre and Peter Weir. Radio Programs, Poetry and Music with Peter Sculthorpe for the ABC. Program of original compositions for ABC FM.

Concerts: Sydney Festival with Robyn Archer and Mark Ferno. Montsalvat Concert with Steve Dunstan. Paris Theatre, Sydney concert with Andrew Wilson and John Proud. Central Street Gallery, a series of concerts for the Sydney Festival. Opera House Recording: Hall, The Full Moon Piece Solo. Hiroshima Day: 1982 Fox Ground Solo. Unicorn Concert:Paddington Town Hall Sydney. Solo: Abercrombie Caves Concert 1988.

Residencies: South Australia - Six months in Bordertown, and the whole of the Tatiara, for the Australia Council, and the South Australian Arts Council. N.S.W. Composer in the Shoalhaven for twelve months in 1993.

Instruments: Violin, viola, cello, double and electric bass, koto, sitar, harp, cheng, kalimba, piano, guitar, and has extensive experience on electronic synthesisers and computer instrumentation and composition.
L.P Record Productions include: Turn it all around, Dust on the Violin: for artists in the Shoalhaven.

Set designed by John Turier http://www.kingstreetgallery.com.au/artists/turier.html