Artists | Australian World Orchestra

Cello

Rohan de Korte

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Associate Principal Cello – Orchestra Victoria; Former – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Sharon Grigoryan

Associate Principal Cello – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian String Quartet

Catherine Hewgill

Principal Cello – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian Chamber Orchestra; The Australian Trio

Matthew Hoy

Former – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Former Artistic Program Manager – The Australian National Academy of Music

Roderick McGrath

Principal Cello – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Former Co-Principal – London Symphony Orchestra

Timothy Nankervis

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Howard Penny

Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Head of Strings – Australian National Academy of Music

Julian Smiles

Lecturer – Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Guest Principal – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Guest Principal – Auckland Philharmonia; Australia Ensemble; Former – Goldner String Quartet; Former Principal Cello – Australian Chamber Orchestra

Julian Thompson

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Michelle Wood

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Tinalley String Quartet; Co-Artistic Director – Concerts Sans Frontières

Double Bass

Kees Boersma

Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Timothy (Tim) Dunin

Professor of Double Bass – University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz; Former – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Damien Eckersley

Associate Principal Bass – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Deputy Artistic Director – Australian National Academy of Music; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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

Kirsty McCahon

Independent Artist; Strategic Relations Manager – Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Former Principal Double Bass – Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Matthew McDonald

Principal Double Bass – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Robert Nairn

Master Musician in Residence – Elder Conservatorium; Professor of Double Bass – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Former Faculty – Juilliard School of Music

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

Viola

Sally Clarke

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Molly Collier-O'Boyle

Acting Associate Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Rathdowne Quartet; Former Principal Viola – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2018 AWO Academy Player

Anne-Louise Comerford

Associate Principal Viola – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Rosemary Curtin

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

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

Juris Ezergailis

Former Principal Viola – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Stefanie Farrands

Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Stephen King

Lecturer of Viola – Elder Conservatorium of Music; Principal Viola – Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra; Former – Australian String Quartet; Former – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Associate Principal Viola – Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

Tobias (Toby) Lea

Principal Viola – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Christopher J. Moore

Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra

Fiona Sargeant

Associate Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Andra Ulrichs-Kreder

Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne; Former – Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich

Katie Yap

Freelance – Period and modern viola; 2013 AWO Academy Player

Violin

Warwick Adeney

Former Concertmaster – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Allen

1st Violin – Orchester der Oper Zürich; La Sctintilla; Founder and Leader – Ensemble Il Trittico, Switzerland; Jewel Ensemble, Switzerland

Dale Barltrop

Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; First Violin – Australian String Quartet; Former Concertmaster – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Lucas Barr

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Michael Brooks-Reid

Regular Leader/Director – Camerata Bern; Guest Member – Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Orchestra Mozart; Former – Hamer Quartet

Lucy Carrig

Principal 2nd Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Rebecca Chan

Associate Leader Violin – Philharmonia Orchestra, England; Piatti Quartet; Former – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra

Natalie Chee

1st Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former 1st Concertmaster – Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; 1st Concertmaster – SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart; Camerata Salzburg

Daniel Dodds

Artistic Director and Leader – Festival Strings Lucerne

Madeleine Easton

Artistic Director – Bach Akademie Australia; Freelance Violinist – London/Europe; Former Concertmaster – The Hanover Band

Paul Ezergailis

Violin Co-Leader – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Luminosa, Galway

Emily Francis

Pedagogue; Former – BBC Symphony Orchestra

Dimity Hall

Goldner String Quartet; Australia Ensemble, University of New South Wales

Anne Harvey-Nagl

Concertmaster – Volksoper Vienna; Koehne Quartet, Vienna

Kirsty Hilton

Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Lucerne Festival Orchestra

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

Graeme Jennings

Senior Lecturer in Violin – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University; Violin – Elision Ensemble; Former Violin – Arditti String Quartet, London

Joanna Lewis

1st Violin – Koehne Quartet, Vienna; Guest Violinist – Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum & Philharmonia, Vienna

Katherine Lukey

Deputy Concertmaster – Opera Australia Orchestra; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal 1st Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Marina Marsden

Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Monica Naselow

Principal 2nd Violin – Orchestra Victoria; Australian Ballet; Former Concertmaster and Education/Outreach Officer – Darwin Symphony Orchestra; Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Violin – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Alison Rayner

IMP; Former – Fragaria Vera Ensemble; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra; First Violin – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Associate Principal Second Violin – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

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

Claire Sterling

Co-Principal Second Violin – English National Opera; Former Principal Second Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scott Stiles

1st Violin – Mozarteum Orchester, Salzburg; Former – Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Miki Tsunoda

Principal 2nd Violin – Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Melinda Watzel

Principal 2nd Violin – Komische Oper Berlin; Deutsche Kammerorchester

Asmira Woodward-Page

IMP; Former Concertmaster – String Orchestra of New York City; Momenta Quartet

Bassoon

David Mitchell

Associate Principal Bassoon – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer in Bassoon – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

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

Melissa Woodroffe

Casual Bassoon – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra Victoria

Clarinet

Francesco (Frank) Celata

Associate Principal Clarinet – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Som Howie

Solo Clarinet – Danish Chamber Players; Royal Swedish Opera Ballet; Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Dean Newcomb

Principal Clarinet – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Flute

Andrew Nicholson

Principal Flute – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; Hallé Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Meg Sterling

Principal Flute – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

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

Diana Doherty

Principal Oboe – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Oboe – Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne

Huw Jones

Principal Oboe – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Shefali Pryor

Principal Oboe – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Piccolo

Linda Stuckey

Principal Piccolo – Hong Kong Philharmonic

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

Horn

Ben Jacks

Guest Principal Horn; Former Principal Horn – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Lin Jiang

Principal Horn – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Principal Horn – Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

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

Casey Rippon

Bayerische Staatsoper; Lecturer Horn – University of Augsburg; Low Horn – Frankfurt Opera

Gabrielle Webster

Freelance; Grand Teton Music Festival, USA

Trombone

Scott Kinmont

Associate Principal Trombone – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Faculty Member – Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM); Former Lecturer in Trombone & Euphonium – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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

Trumpet

Lukas Beno

Principal Trumpet – Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig

Brent Grapes

Associate Principal Trumpet – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Trumpet – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Head of Brass – WA Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University