Kit Spencer

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Kit is an emerging artist, musician, horticulturist and teacher, living on Wangal land, with a passion for accessible and multidisciplinary vocal practice. He has been a member of UNSW New Music Collective since 2018, performing repertoire from the serial, experimental and minimalist music traditions of the mid-20th century. As well as writing and developing new work with experimental Australian composers and artists. Some notable performances include Extended Play Festival (2019), Ten Thousand Birds (virtually, 2020), Snakes and Ladders (2021), Coming Together (2022) and Sonus Maris (2023). 

He has led the CREATION Choir since its Sydney Opera House debut in 2021, offering creative development of new vocal works over seven iterations across Australia. As Choir Captain, he teaches and supports the gender queer choir of 5 to 50 professional and amateur singers to realise their own unique voices. Some notable performances include All About Women Fest (2022), New Annual Festival (2022), Day4Night Sydney World Pride (2023), EdgeFest Sydney Biannale (2024) and AGNSW Art After Hours 21st Anniversary (2024). 

In 2024 he wrote and produced the one man show, Castrati, premiering to a sold out crowd during Sydney Fringe Festival. As a trans man, he is especially conscious of the dearth of places where trans and gender diverse people can access vocal practice. Castrati, a cabaret-style song cycle, explores these themes of exclusion, through the lens of the maligned and extinct Castrato Soprano – male singers castrated before puberty to retain their high ranges of boyhood. He has particular interest in supporting trans singers to find and embrace their voices, and forge methodologies to creatively destabilise the intensely gender-constrained vocal traditions of the Western canon.