The Australian counter-tenor, Graham Pushee, studied voice with the tenor David Parker in Sydney. He made his stage debut in 1973 as Operon in Midsummer night's dream. At the 1977 Churchill Fellowship Award he was awarded the Special prize and went to London to study with Paul Esswood. After that he went to study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Kurt Widmer and René Jacobs from 1978 to 1983.