Bernard Kirkpatrick is a well known Sydney organist and choral director, with 30 years experience in liturgical music. He received his early music training in Tasmania from the Sisters of Mercy, and subsequently the Marist Fathers. In 1984 he arrived in Sydney and commenced organ studies with Sydney City Organist, Robert Ampt, later studying organ improvisation with M. Naji Hakim (then Organist Titulaire de Basilique Sacre Coeur) in Paris. Whilst studying for the Bachelor of Music degree at The University of Sydney, he was University Organ Scholar, and Director of Chapel Music at St. John's College.

Mr. Kirkpatrick has held the post of Organist and Choirmaster at St. Patrick's Church Hill, and from 1988 - 1999 was the Assistant Organist at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, where he also established the St. Mary's Singers, and directed the Cathedral choir on occasion. Since 1996 he has been Director of Music at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Paddington in Sydney, where he is responsible for the parish music program consisting of a large SATB Choir, cantors and musicians.

His interest in liturgical music includes developing ways of incorporating traditional sacred music styles e.g chant & choral polyphony with the contemporary needs of liturgical practice through a synthesis of form, musical language and instrumentation.

He has composed numerous liturgical works including 2 festival Mass settings, Music for Holy Week and the Easter Season, musical arrangements of the Prayer of St. Francis, and the Prayer of St. Ignatius, hymns and psalms. A number of his liturgical compositions have been aceepeted for publication by the U.S liturgical music publisher, CanticaNOVA.

Bernard has also led workshops for the Royal School of Church Music (Australia) and the Australian Catholic University, and is a member of the Music Advisory Committee of the Archdiocese of Sydney.

In December, 2004 he was appointed as a Music Consultant to the National Liturgical Commission of the Australia Catholic Bishops' Conference.

He studied pianoforte with Alexander Sverjensky at the NSW State conservatorium of Music and in 1969 went to Rome where he studied for six years with the celebrated Italian organist Fernando Germani, obtaining the Diploma in Organ and Organ Composition. He also studied Sacred Music with Domenico Bartolucci, formerly Director of the Choir of the Sistine Chapel.

Edward Theodore has participated in the summer courses at the Accademia Musicale Chagiana in Siena, in the Cours d'Interpretation de Romainmoteir(Switzerland) with Lionel Rogg and Guy Bovet and has also studied with Andre Marchal and Maurice Durufle.

He has given numerous concerts in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom as well as sydney Town Hall, Opera House, Great Hall Sydney University, St. Andrew's Cathedral and St. Paul's Cathedral Melbourne.

Edward returned to Sydney in 1982 and is presently organ and piano tutor at St. Ignatius College Riverview, SCEGGS Darlinghurst and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill. From 1984 -88 he was Deputy Organist at St. Mary's Cathedral. His 1992 CD of the organ music of Maurice Durufle, recorded in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, (on the Move label, md3102) received many favourable reviews, including a written accolade from the late composer's widow, Marie-Madeleine Durufle-Chevalier, herself a well-known organist and composer.

Nicole Smeulders has sung at St Francis Paddington for some five years as cantor and as soloist at weddings and orchestral Masses.

A recipient of the Lauris Elms Contralto Award for two consecutive years, Nicole has performed as soloist with groups such as the Sydney University Graduates Choir, Manly Warringah Symphonic Choir, UNSW Opera, Rockdale Opera and St Andrew's Cathedral Singers. Performance highlights include; Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Mass in F and Magnificat, Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass, Beethoven's Mass in C, Tippet's A Child of our Time, Handel's Messiah, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Faure's Penelope and The Mikado.

Nicole has performed extra chorus work with Opera Australia, the Sydney Philharmonia Motet and the London Philharmonic. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, she has achieved the A.Mus.A, A.T.C.L. and L.T.C.L. performance diplomas.