Roy Theaker has a diverse and well-travelled career as a Violin soloist, Concertmaster, Conductor and Music Director. He has lit up the stage from the Sydney Opera House to Carnegie Hall New York, London’s West End to Santory Hall Japan, in both the highbrow classical world and the commercial theatre, rock and pop industry sharing the stage with the likes of Robbie Williams, Hugh Jackman and even The Three Tenors.

An acclaimed violinist and former Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony, he is known for his musical diversity, engaging stage presence and blistering technique. Recent engagements include leading the orchestra of the official “Les Misérables” World Arena Concert Tour 2025 – Australia, Taiwan & Shanghai seasons – performing to over half a million people.

Invitations as a guest Concertmaster include the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, Singapore Symph, Hong Kong Phil, Swedish National Radio Orchestra, West Australian Symph, RTE Concert Orchestra, Trondheim Sinfonie, Real Sinfonica Seville, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquestra do Algarve and the Metropolitana Orchestra of Lisbon. Music Theatre show credits include solo violin on the Melbourne Seasons of Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Cinderella, Book of Mormon, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss of the Spider Women, Sound of Music and the recently acclaimed new Australian musical “Stella”.

Since 2022 he spends half his year headlining as a Guest Entertainer in his own Spectacular Violin Shows on luxury cruise lines - Azamara, Viking, Seabourn, Silversea, Cunard, Holland America, Celebrity and Princess - and has performed in and off the coast of over 30 countries in six continents.

As a Conductor he has recorded and performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, Sofia and Orquestra do Algarve, Portugal - of which he was both a Concertmaster and Associate Conductor from 2003-7. For a number of years he was a conductor on Walt Disney Theatrical’s hit musical “The Lion King” in both the West End and later in Melbourne, and for over a decade he served as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Stonnington Symphony Orchestra, performing with a host of Australian commercial artists such as Archie Roach, Lior, Ella Hooper, Patrice Tipoki, Dave Grainy, Rebecca Barnard, and Vika & Linda Bull plus classical names including Siobhan Stagg, Caroline Almonte, Jacqueline Porter, Anthony Barnhill, Lily Higson-Spence, Brigid Coleridge, Lee Abrahmsen and Liane Keegan.

A graduate of Chichester Cathedral Choir, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Vienna Conservatoire and the Royal Academy, London he was a violinist in the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields for many happy years, where he learnt his trade and polished his chamber music. Committed to education he has at varying times regularly conducted the Melbourne University Orchestra, Monash University Orchestra, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary and Melbourne Girls Grammar Schools, and he continues as a visiting guest artist at Scotch College.

Recordings include as a chamber musician with the Brodsky String Quartet, as featured violin soloist with Orquestra do Algarve and Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, as conductor with RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin Brass and Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, all available on itunes, spotify and the like.

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2012, holds a Masters in Business Admin (MBA) and loves to play racket sports.

Roy is fortunate to have been lent a number of prestigious instruments including Yehudi Menuhin's Carlo Antonio Testore viola c.1750, and violins by Matteo Goffriller c.1710, Giovanni Francesco Pressenda c.1830, and currently he plays on his own Honoré Derazey, c.1840.