Cello
Jonathan Békés
Principal Cello – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Estivo Trio; 2016 AWO Academy Player
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Rohan de Korte
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Associate Principal Cello – Orchestra Victoria; Former – Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Michael Goldschlager
Freelance; Former Principal Cello – West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australia
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Molly Kadarauch
Sutherland Trio; University of Melbourne; Former Associate Principal Cello – Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Mee Na Lojewski
Founding Cellist – Affinity Quartet; Freelance – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Opera, Victorian Opera
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Peter Morrison
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Former – Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra
Michelle Wood
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Tinalley String Quartet; Co-Artistic Director – Concerts Sans Frontières
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Timothy (Tim) Dunin
Professor of Double Bass – University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz; Former – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Damien Eckersley
Associate Principal Bass – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Deputy Artistic Director – Australian National Academy of Music; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Max McBride
Senior Lecturer – Australian National University School of Music; Principal Double Bass – Canberra Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Double Bass – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Co-Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Vienna State Opera; Former Lecturer & Senior Lecturer in Double Bass & Conducting – Canberra School of Music; Former Chief Conductor & Artistic Director – Sydney Youth Orchestra; Former Chief Conductor – Canberra Youth Orchestra
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Robert Nairn
Master Musician in Residence – Elder Conservatorium; Professor of Double Bass – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Former Faculty – Juilliard School of Music
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Andrew Sinclair
Principal Double Bass – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Former – Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ciro Vigilante
Principal Double Bass – Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Former – Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Guest – German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen; Ensemble Stuttgart Varianti; Former Guest Soloist – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Viola
Robert Ashworth
Principal Viola – Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra; Jade String Quartet, New Zealand
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Andra Ilze Darzins
Professor of Viola – University of Music, Stuttgart; Guest Principal – Staatskapelle Berlin, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Elbphilharmonie Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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Stefanie Farrands
Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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Sergio Insuasti
2019 AWO Academy Player; Former Principal Viola – Sydney Youth Orchestra
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Andrew Jezek
Co-Artistic Director – Sydney Art Quartet; Former Principal Viola – Klangforum Wien; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Freelance Principal Viola – Opera Australia Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Andra Ulrichs-Kreder
Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne; Former – Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
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Violin
Jonathan Allen
1st Violin – Orchester der Oper Zürich; La Sctintilla; Founder and Leader – Ensemble Il Trittico, Switzerland; Jewel Ensemble, Switzerland
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Margaret Blades
Co-Artistic Director – Southern Cross Soloists; Creative Director of Music – Bond University; Former Associate Concertmaster – Western Australia Symphony Orchestra; Former Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Michael Brooks-Reid
Regular Leader/Director – Camerata Bern; Guest Member – Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Orchestra Mozart; Former – Hamer Quartet
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Rebecca Chan
Associate Leader Violin – Philharmonia Orchestra, England; Piatti Quartet; Former – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Natalie Chee
1st Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former 1st Concertmaster – Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; 1st Concertmaster – SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart; Camerata Salzburg
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Heather Cottrell
Acting Deputy Concertmaster – Staatskapelle Berlin; Former Principal 2nd Violin – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Monica Curro
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Co-Artistic Director – Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
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Stanley Dodds
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director – Cavatina Philharmonic Orchestra; Chief Conductor – Sydney Youth Orchestra; Violin – Berlin Philharmonic; Former Principal Conductor – Berlin Symphony Orchestra
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Madeleine Easton
Artistic Director – Bach Akademie Australia; Freelance Violinist – London/Europe; Former Concertmaster – The Hanover Band
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Marina Gillam
Freelance – Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Concert Orchestra, London; Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; Former – City of Birmingham City Symphony Orchestra
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Simon James
Chair of Strings — San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Violin Professor – San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Teacher – Coleman Violin Studio; Former Second Assistant Concertmaster – Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Former Concertmaster – Seattle Chamber Orchestra
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Joanna Lewis
1st Violin – Koehne Quartet, Vienna; Guest Violinist – Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum & Philharmonia, Vienna
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Katherine Lukey
Deputy Concertmaster – Opera Australia Orchestra; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal 1st Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Patrick Savage
Freelance – concertmaster and film composer; Former Principal First Violin – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Leader – Tippett Quartet
Wilma Smith
Wilma & Friends; Second Violin - Flinders Quartet; Artistic Director of Competitions - Musica Viva Australia; Co-Artistic Director – Martinborough Music Festival; Former Concertmaster - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Founding First Violin - Lydian Quartet & New Zealand String Quartet
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Claire Sterling
Co-Principal Second Violin – English National Opera; Former Principal Second Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Bassoon
David Mitchell
Associate Principal Bassoon – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer in Bassoon – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
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Lyndon Watts
Professor of Bassoon – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne; Former Principal Bassoon – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Professor of Bassoon – Berne University of the Arts
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Philip Arkinstall
Associate Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal – Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
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Cor Anglais
Rixon Thomas
Principal Cor Anglais — The Royal Danish Orchestra; Former Principal Cor Anglais — New Zealand Symphony; Former Principal Cor Anglais — Copenhagen Philharmonic, Denmark; Former Principal Cor Anglais — Opera Australia Orchestra; Former 2nd Oboe — Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Alison Mitchell
Principal Flute – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Flute – Scottish Chamber Orchestra, UK
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Lisa Osmialowski (Lewis)
Associate Principal Flute – Opera Australia Orchestra; Guest Principal Piccolo – Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Nick Deutsch
Professor of Oboe — Hochschule für Musik, Leipzig; Royal College of Music, London; Principal Oboe — Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Former Artistic Director — Australian National Academy of Music
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Saxophone
Christina Leonard
Freelance – Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Artistic Director – Classic Stomp and AWO Chamber Music Festival, NSW Southern Highlands
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Shannon Pittaway
Principal Bass Trombone – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Head of Winds and Brass – New Zealand School of Music; Australian Brass Quintet; Former Principal Bass Trombone – Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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Lin Jiang
Principal Horn – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Principal Horn – Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
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Emily Newham
Freelance; Former Fellow – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; 2019 AWO Academy Player
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Casey Rippon
Bayerische Staatsoper; Lecturer Horn – University of Augsburg; Low Horn – Frankfurt Opera
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Trombone
Timothy Dowling
Principal Trombone – Residentie Orchestra (The Hague Philharmonic); Former Professor of Trombone – Royal Conservatorium, The Hague
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Michael Mulcahy
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Director – CSO Brass; Professor of Trombone – Northwestern University; Chicago Chamber Musicians; Visiting Artist ANAM; Former Principal Trombone – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
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Owen Morris
Principal Trumpet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Trumpet – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Tuba
Harp
Percussion
David Montgomery
Principal Percussion – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Teacher – University of Queensland; Artistic Director – Isorhythmos Percussion Ensemble; Former Percussion Lecturer – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
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Stefan Cassomenos
Pianist, Composer – PLEXUS, Artistic Director – Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
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Antoine (Tony) Bedewi
Principal Timpani – BBC Symphony Orchestra; Former Co-Principal Timpani – London Symphony Orchestra
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