Cello
Catherine Hewgill
Principal Cello – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian Chamber Orchestra; The Australian Trio
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Matthew Hoy
Former – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Former Artistic Program Manager – The Australian National Academy of Music
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Peter Morrison
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Former – Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra
Howard Penny
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Head of Strings – Australian National Academy of Music
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Adam Szabo
Director — BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Former CEO & Artistic Director — Manchester Collective; Former Principal Cello No. 2 – Welsh National Opera; Associate Principal Cello No. 4 – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Ulster Orchestra; Former Cello – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2011 AWO Academy Player
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Michael Williams
Principal Cello – Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Principal – Volksoper Vienna; Former Associate Principal – Australian Chamber Orchestra
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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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Alex Henery
Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Co-Principal – Philharmonia, London
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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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Kirsty McCahon
Independent Artist; Strategic Relations Manager – Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Former Principal Double Bass – Australian Brandenburg 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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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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Brett Dean
Composer in Residence – BBC Symphony Orchestra; AWO Composer; Former Viola – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Artist in Residence – Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Lisa Grosman
Lecturer — Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney; Sessional Viola Lecturer — Melbourne Conservatorium, University of Melbourne; Head of Strings — Xavier College; Former — Irish Chamber Orchestra; Director of the Viola Programme — Monash University; Melbourne Conservatorium Young Artists Academy, University of Melbourne
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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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Matthew Laing
2011 AWO Academy Player; Former Principal Viola – Australian Youth Orchestra
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Angela Lindsay
Co-Artistic Director and Principal Viola – Lurline Chamber Orchestra; Guest – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Welsh National Opera; City of Oxford Orchestra
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Christopher J. Moore
Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Simon Oswell
Former Principal Viola – Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; Capitol Ensemble, Los Angeles; Hollywood Recording Artist
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Andra Ulrichs-Kreder
Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne; Former – Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
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Dale Barltrop
Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; First Violin – Australian String Quartet; Former Concertmaster – Vancouver Symphony 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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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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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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Joanne Green
Scottish Ensemble; Former Subprincipal – Northern Sinfonia; Guest Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Kirsty Hilton
Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Lucerne Festival 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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Graeme Jennings
Senior Lecturer in Violin – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University; Violin – Elision Ensemble; Former Violin – Arditti String Quartet, London
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Joanna Lewis
1st Violin – Koehne Quartet, Vienna; Guest Violinist – Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum & Philharmonia, Vienna
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Maria Lindsay
Soloist; Co-Artistic Director & Leader – Lurline Chamber Orchestra; Former – Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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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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Belinda McFarlane
Youth Education Programme Advisor; Director – London Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Violin – London Symphony Orchestra; Fiorini piano trio
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Anna McMichael
Classical Convenor and Head of Strings – Monash University; Former – Co-Artistic Director – Tyalgum Music Festival; Violin – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Amsterdam Sinfonietta; London Sinfonietta
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Liisa Pallandi
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former – Britten-Pears Orchestra, Aldeburgh; 2011 AWO Academy Player
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Sophie Rowell
Artistic Director – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Associate Professor – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Former Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Claire Sterling
Co-Principal Second Violin – English National Opera; Former Principal Second Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Asmira Woodward-Page
IMP; Former Concertmaster – String Orchestra of New York City; Momenta Quartet
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Matthew Ockenden
Associate Principal Bassoon – Opera Australia Orchestra; Casual Bassoon – Australian Chamber Orchestra
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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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Francesco (Frank) Celata
Associate Principal Clarinet – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer – Sydney Conservatorium of Music
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Paul Dean
Composer & IMP; Head of Winds — University of Queensland; Co-Artistic Director — Ensemble Q
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David Thomas
Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Head of Woodwind – Australian National Academy of Music
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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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Oboe
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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Diana Doherty
Principal Oboe – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Oboe – Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne
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Bass Trombone
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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Andrew Bain
Principal Horn – Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Mainly Mozart Festival, San Diego; Professor – Colburn School Conservatory of Music; Former Principal Horn – Colorado Music Festival; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Münchner Symphoniker
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Peter Luff
Horn Faculty — Australian National Academy of Music; Former Associate Professor in Horn & Head of Brass — Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University; Ensemble Q; President — International Horn Society; Former Associate Principal Horn — Queensland Symphony Orchestra
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Hector McDonald
Former Principal Horn – Vienna Symphony Orchestra & Concentus Musicus Wien; Professor of Horn – University of Music & Performing Arts, Graz
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Casey Rippon
Bayerische Staatsoper; Lecturer Horn – University of Augsburg; Low Horn – Frankfurt Opera
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Trombone
Michael Bertoncello
Former Trombone – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Solo Trombone – Tonhalle Orchester, Zürich
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Damien Lingard
Associate Principle Trombone – Munich Radio Orchestra; Former – Queensland Youth Symphony; Stuttgart Philharmonic
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Paul Goodchild (dec'd)
Associate Principal Trumpet – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Artistic Director – Sydney Brass
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Tuba
Matthew Segger
Principal Tuba – Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra; Heavy MättAL Quartet; Former Academist – Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig
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Alice Giles AM
Lecturer – Sydney Conservatorium of Music and ANAM; Director – Seven Harp Ensemble; Artistic Director – World Harp Congress 2014, Sydney
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John Douglas
Freelance Percussion; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Opera Australia Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra
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Claire Edwardes OAM
Artistic Director – Ensemble Offspring; Guest Percussion – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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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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Timpani
Brian Nixon
Principal Timpani – Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Guest Timpani – Sydney Symphony Orchestra