Counter-Tenor Graham Pushee’s career spans over three decades. Following his debut in 1973 as Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for UNSW Opera, he performed widely throughout Australia before being awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1977, which enabled him to study in London and subsequently at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, where he then lived for over 20 years. 

Highly acclaimed both for his vocal and dramatic portrayals, he became particularly known for his characterisations of many of the heroic roles of Handel and of lyric roles in the early 17th Century repertoire. Guest appearances took him to many of the world’s leading opera houses including La Scala Milan, Staatsoper and Komische Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Opera Cologne, Frankfurt Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Opera National de Paris, Lyon and Montpellier, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Regio Turin, Grand Theatre de Geneve,Victorian State Opera and Opera Queensland. He was a regular guest at international festivals including Salzburg Easter Festival, Holland Festival, Innsbruck Festival, Vienna Festwochen, Heidelberg Castle Festival, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, and the Handel Festivals in Maryland USA, Karlsruhe, Göttingen and Halle. For Opera Australia Graham sang Ruggiero (Alcina), the title role in Julius Caesar, Rinaldo and Goffredo (Rinaldo), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Apollo (Death in Venice), and featured at both the 40^th and 50th Birthday and the New Years’ Eve Galas. 

He appeared in concert throughout Europe and Australia performing Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Christmas Oratorio, B minor mass, Handel oratorios, and major works of Telemann, Purcell, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Schütz and Monteverdi.  

Graham’s recordings include Tamerlano (Handel), La Calisto (Cavalli), and Giulio Cesare on DVD, his Handel aria disc with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, his Vivaldi solo album with Aurora Musicale (both on ABC Classics) and many others.     

Since returning to Australia he has since taught and coached at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, given Masterclasses and workshops for Opera Queensland, the Melba Opera Trust and WAAPA and adjudicated and presented vocal competitions. Graham retired from singing in 2006 and is now managing director of Arts Management, representing many of Australia’s finest singers, conductors, instrumentalists, designers and directors.