Christopher Wainwright came to arts management in the late 1990s from the background of a musicologist with a strong passion for early music who appreciated the role good management plays in its successe
Working in the arts as a communications and marketing manager has been just one aspect of his career. He has also worked as a corporate social responsibility journalist for Our Community’s quarterly magazine, Business Community Intelligence and as a freelance arts journalist with Arts Hub Australia, State of the Arts and the Australian Financial Review.
His success as a journalist was underpinned by a 12-month mentorship he received in 2002 from the Helpmann Academy to work with Dr Graham Strahle who writes for The Australian and The Adelaide Review.
Between working as a journalist, he was an arts public relations and marketing consultant who assisted a number of small Adelaide classical music organisation gain increased local and national media profile. These included: Adelaide Baroque, Recitals Australia and the Accompanists’ Guild of South Australia. He also worked with interstate clients: jazz pianist, Mark Isaacs and the Sydney Flute Festival
From September 2006 – April 2008, Christopher was Arts Access SA’s inaugural Communications & Audience Development Officer. During that period, he was appointed as a peer assessor to Arts SA’s Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust and to the Editorial Board of Australia’s leading disability magazine, Link.
While working with Arts Access SA he maintained a close association in a voluntary capacity with Volunteering SA and the Accompanists’ Guild of SA
In May 2008, Christopher became Adelaide Youth Orchestra’s General Manager.
Christopher is a graduate from the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music with a 1st class Bachelor of Music, Honours degree in Musicology and with a Masters in Management (Arts & Cultural Management), majoring in arts and human resource management from the University of South Australia.