Music Banney is the director of music at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, and the conductor of the Christ Church Camerata. He is the
artistic director of the Newcastle Music Festival. Banney has conducted various ensembles in Australia, including the
Queensland Symphony Orchestra,
Canberra Symphony Orchestra,
Opera Queensland,
Queensland Ballet,
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the
West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with other scholars for research, publishing with
Giuseppe Caglioti on the subject of
thermodynamics in music, and with Roger Smith on the subject of
symmetry breaking in the synchronisation of
uterine muscle behaviour during
human labour. In 2018, Banney was appointed an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, where he taught the course "Einstein, Bach and the Taj Mahal: Symmetry in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities". == Awards ==