Justin currently serves as the Associate Principal Clarinet of Orchestra Victoria and the founding Artistic Director of the Melbourne Chamber Players. 

His career has led him to perform as guest Principal Clarinet and E-flat Clarinet with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and The Australian World Orchestra as well as chamber music festivals across Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He has appeared on numerous live broadcasts for ABC and 3mbs radio, Radio New Zealand, Opera Europa, and ABC Classics.  

In the realm of chamber music, Justin has collaborated with renowned ensembles such as the Orava Quartet, Flinders Quartet, Arcadia Winds, Hindemith Wind Quintet, and the Melbourne Ensemble. He is also a member of the Tailors Ensemble. Reeds Bending (reed quintet), and the newly formed Glenfern Trio. He has also had the pleasure of performing at celebrated chamber music festivals, including the Port Fairy Music Festival, Peninsula Summer Music Festival, Bendigo Festival, Melbourne Festival, Music by the Springs, Now or Never Festival, the Banff Summer Music Festival (Canada) and the Mackay Chamber Music Festival.  

With an ardent commitment to Australian contemporary music, Justin is has commissioned an array of work from Australian composers. His work with award-winning new music ensembles Syzygy, Arcko Symphonic Project, Opus House and as a founding member of the Rubiks Collective have been critically acclaimed. Noteworthy premieres have featured compositions but luminaries such as Margaret Sutherland, Deborah Cheetham, Nigel Sabin, Paul Dean, Brett Dean, Sam Smith, and Matthew Laing. Justin also spearheads the Continuo Commissioning Circle, a Victoria-based initiative to support the creation of new chamber music and the musicians who bring them to life.

Enriched by his training as a Fellow and Alumnus of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Justin has benefited from the guidance and mentorship of eminent clarinetists David Thomas, Paul Dean, Stephen Kenyon, and Floyd Williams. He has also performed in masterclasses with internationally respected artists including Andrew Marriner, Michael Collins, Paul Meyer and Dimitri Ashkenazy, Thorsten Johanns, James Campbell, and Frank Celata to name a few. He holds a Bachelor of Music with Honors from the Queensland Conservatorium and furthered his education with various post-graduate degrees on an orchestral woodwind scholarship at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music. Following this, Justin undertook study in the Professional Performance Program at ANAM and concurrently pursued a Master of Music Research degree at the Queensland Conservatorium on a full scholarship. He is also a recipient of the Nelle Ashdown Memorial Award in 2011 and Robert and Elizabeth Albert Scholarship in 2019. 

Justin is active as a music educator with extensive experience teaching in schools across Queensland and Victoria. He has also acted as Teaching Associate at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Melbourne Conservatorium Young Artists Academy.  

Some personal career highlights include performing the world premiere’s Paul Dean’s E-flat Clarinet Concertino No Exit in 2014 and Nigel Sabin’s Clarinet Quintet in 2019. The year 2018 was marked by his performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Orava String Quartet at MBTS, and more recently as Principal E-flat Clarinet with the Australian World Orchestra under the prestigious baton of Zubin Mehta in 2022.