An award winning graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Honours Music and Education degrees in orchestral percussion, Joe has worked extensively worldwide as a performer, session musician, composer, music producer and music director.
Joe has performed and recorded with many artists including Andrea Bocelli, Smokey Robinson, Ronan Keating, Robbie Williams, Cyndi Lauper Anthony Warlow, Tina Arena, Wendy Matthews, Yothu Yindi, Jimmy Barnes, Human Nature, David Campbell & Marcia Hines.
Joe is the Musical Director for Velvet – Australian National Tour, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sydney Opera House, Auckland Arts Festival and Norwegian Cruise Line. Other Music Director credits include Gypsy, Marcia Hines - Disco Inferno, B-Girl Sydney Opera House, Bobby Fox - Four Seasons in One Night and iOTA – Young Hard and Solo for Sydney Festival and Pigalle, both debuted at the Sydney Festival.
Further credits include Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs – 10th Anniversary World Tour, Novello Theatre London West End, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa tours. David Campbell – Swing Sessions I & II, Good Lovin’, On Broadway and Let’s Go tours. He has worked extensively with Human Nature on The Motown Show tours, and Las Vegas residency. Events include Sydney New Year’s Eve and the Elevate Festival 2022.
Joe is the soundtrack producer on the award winning, Velvet. The Original Cast Recording of Velvet was nominated for an ARIA Award. Recently, Joe has arranged & produced David Campbell’s album release The Saturday Sessions and Marcia Hines’ upcoming The Gospel According To Marcia, and is the Music Supervisor on new works L’Hotel (Adelaide Cabaret Festival) & Dubbo Championship Wrestling (Hayes Theatre Co). Joe’s recent performance credits include Darlinghurst Theatre’s production of Once; the World Premiere of Dream Lover with David Campbell and the Helpmann Award winning Smoke & Mirrors with iOTA, directed by Craig Ilott. Joe was a co recipient of the Helpmann for Best Original Score with iOTA. Joe is the co-creator, composer and co-producer of the all-female percussion stage show, DrummerQueens which premiered at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in 2021.