Troy is of the Biripai people of the Greater Manning area near Taree, and the Gamillaroi people of the North West Slopes and Plains, New South Wales Australia.
Troy's journey with music began at 11, when a neighbour offered to teach him the fundamentals of music, and Troy flourished. He found an old photograph of his father playing a banjo and learned that his family from Taree was a musical family - a great revelation that has been inspiring him for the last 40 years.
In 2021 Troy was a successful applicant to Moogahlin Performing Arts’ Yellamundie Festival where his first musical piece The Last Shot was developed, furthering its story and legacy. Music from the show then toured to Brewarrina to close Moogahlin’s Baiame's Ngunnhu Festival 2021. In 2022 Troy was one of the inaugural First Peoples Artist-in-Residence at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Intersticia began working with Troy when we supported his work “The Lost Histories” through Musica Viva Australia in 2023 (see https://www.musicaviva.com.au/ensembles/program/lost-histories/) and in 2024 Intersticia partnered with 5 Eliza Street to support Troy’s development of a new approach to storytelling and music augmented by digital technologies (see https://intersticia.org/immersive-story-world-building/).
