Specialisms

Spooky Men
Singing Stuff

Additional information

Stephen Taberner was born in New Zealand, but moved to Sydney where a perfectly unorthodox life as jazz double bass player and computer programmer was hijacked by an extended encounter with world music choir “Voices from the Vacant Lot”. Before he knew it, he was a choirleader and then a singing songwriting double bass player.

He is most notorious for his leadership of the Spooky Men’s Chorale, which he formed in 2001, as well as his work with the Millennium Chorus (Melbourne), his trio, The Sofa of Fools, and an increasingly bewildering programme of singing and songwriting workshops throughout Australasia and Europe.