Brett Chynoweth

Brett Chynoweth was born in Melbourne. At age five, he began training at a local ballet school. He soon moved to The Australian Ballet School, where he received, among other awards, the Dr HC (Nuggett) Coombes Travelling Scholarship, which enabled him to train in New York and Toronto, and the prestigious Graeme Murphy Award for Excellence in Contemporary Dance. He graduated dux from The Australian Ballet School with honours to join The Australian Ballet at the beginning of 2009, and was promoted to Senior Artist at the end of 2015. Since joining The Australian Ballet, Brett has performed a variety of classical and contemporary works by choreographers such as Acosta, Duato, Harbour, Kylián, McGregor, Murphy and Ratmansky, and danced principal roles in works by some of the greats - Ashton, Balanchine, Lifar, MacMillan, Wheeldon and Wright.